Five Floral Portraits
To my eye, irises, peonies, and roses are romantic, elegant, and mesmerizing botanical subjects and I enjoy viewing them through the camera’s lens from many different vantage points and in all kinds of lighting and weather conditions. Here now, in an admittedly late post, is a small sample of specimens in bloom that I discovered during my close-to-home vacation from mid-May to early June — when many hours were devoted to gardening and Piper care, and a few precious moments to photo walks in the neighbourhood:
Flowers of May: A Sampler
Photographs made during neighbourhood walks throughout the first three weeks of May and presented in sequence of blooming.
Lilacs (Syringa)
Camellia (Camellia japonica)
Atlas Poppy (Papaver atlanticum)
Pink Lilac (Syringa ‘Pink Perfume’)
Hawthorne tree (Crataegus)
White Iris (Iris germanica)
Peony (Paeonia)
Rose (Rosa)
Oriental Poppy (Papaver orientale)
A Year in Flowers, Week 23: Roses & Peonies
These flowers are not growing in my garden, but instead are a few of the roses and peonies I’ve been enjoying during afternoon and evening neighbourhood walks with Piper. These photographs are from the week of June 3rd through June 9th.
“You love the roses - so do I. I wish
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be
Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!”
~ George Eliot, Roses