Linked to Colour Your World. For more pictures with the shade blue violet, click here.
Tag: flowers
Go forth, my heart, and seek delight
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Gardens.
The title is the English translation of a German church hymn, written by Paul Gerhardt and published in 1653:
Geh aus mein Herz und suche Freud
Go forth, my heart, and seek delight
In all the gifts of God’s great might,
These pleasant summer hours:
Look how the plains for thee and me
Have decked themselves most fair to see,
All bright and sweet with flowers.
The trees stand thick and dark with leaves,
And earth o’er all here dust now weaves
A robe of living green;
Nor silks of Solomon compare
With glories that the tulips wear,
Or lilies’ spotless sheen.
Flowers and missiles
I came across this mural in München, Germany (Munich). Intellectually, I understand the juxtaposition between war/war machinery and the beauty found in flowers and traditional ceramics and porcelain. But overall – I am not really convinced that it works for me.
For Monday Murals. More murals can be found here.
Thursday’s Five
Pick a Word for Paula’s Thursday’s Special. More interpretations can be found here.
Crayola Colour Challenge – week 4
The fourth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
Shapely tulips
The One Word Sunday challenge asked for shape. It’s so drab outside I wanted to look at some colour – and tulips have a very distinguishable shape, too.
More shapely photos can be found here.
a round of applause
Most flowers are round by definition, the petals, the leaves, even when jagged have no straight angles. These arrangements use curves and round elements to showcase the flowers.
These flowerbeds were created for the national garden exhibition in Brandenburg, Germany, in 2016 (Bundesgartenschau). They show examples of how graves can be planted, and nurseries from all over Germany had small, grave-sized plots showing examples of their work. Because of the spacial limitations the displays are miniatures with every plant, every petal displayed to perfection. In fact, I saw gardeners working on the arrangements with little nail scissors clipping leaves for optimum effect.
This is for The Daily Post and more photos with the topic of rounded can be found here.
Through the dancing poppy stole a breeze
How hidden this field of poppies was to locals, I don’t know. But I had walked hours and hours before I came upon it, quite unexpectedly stepping out of the woods.
The full quote by John Keats is thus: “Through the dancing poppies stole a breeze most softly lulling to my soul.”
More hidden treasures for the A Photo a Week Challenge can be found here.
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