This Mimosa Tree blossom is not only an attraction to Butterflies and Hummingbirds, but it is so delicate and so colorful and it’s like a Mini – fireworks display – nothing short of an explosion of color! this tree came as a volunteer and was not even noticed for a few years…......my friend Bonnie Barry wrote a story once about a volunteer Mimosa Tree and has graciously consented to my using it along with this image….Bonnie, Thank you!!! You can check her works by just typing in Miracles in the search field. / / ____ Joyce, I thought you might like this little story I wrote years ago about a mimosa I loved. All the best, Bonnie Mimosa While I was watering the wilted caladiums near my angel statue, I looked up and noticed the mimosa in all its glory. Here I was working diligently to make the caladiums grow, yet there it stood, radiant without human effort. How many other plants had I set in this same spot through the years? The angel’s trumpet . . . impatiens . . . . those unusual little two-tone flowers whose names I can’t remember. All of them curled up and died. The soil was awful here; roots were knotted through the area; the trees sapped all the moisture. I’d wasted many a dollar on this spot, yet there was the mimosa looking down on me in gentle amusement. I had not planted the mimosa. I had never tilled the soil for it. I had not even watered it through the three-year drought. Yet three years ago it had been little more than a naked stick poking from the ground. The only reason it stayed put was that it was too close to the hurricane fence for Tommy to lop it as he mowed. The mimosa was a gift, a pure gift from God. I couldn’t claim any part in its flourishing. Either God’s wind had blown its seed to this corner or God’s birds had unwittingly deposited it. Only the miracle of nature could have made it grow like this without human care or cultivation. Yet now it produced all the color and vibrancy, all the grace and beauty that I had tried to achieve through the years with no success at all. / How like my life, I thought. Sometimes all my strained efforts are fruitless, yet in the midst of the sterility, God drops a single word, a single thought, and everything is suddenly alive and beautiful. Apart from Him, I can do nothing, yet I work like a Trojan to do it anyway. Maybe the gifts are rewards for my efforts, and maybe they are just freely given out of pure love. Who knows? Whatever the reason, the Source is undeniable. ___ “Every good gift and every perfect endowment comes from the Father of Lights,” (James 1:17) the mimosa whispers to me in gentle and amused remembrance. / __ / All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. © 2006 Joyce Dickens: Using my images for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action!
A unique view of an Agave Americana bloom
For the Flower Power Project Screensaver ___ All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © 2007 Joyce Dickens: Using my images for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action.
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Chinese character “hei” means “double happiness” in english. A symbol used in all chinese weddings. Check out more wedding related products from this design here! Check out more products from this design here! a BIG THANK YOU to the fabulous buyer who bought 2 canvas print of this design on the 1st of September 2008…cheers! :) / a BIG THANK YOU to the fabulous buyer who bought a laminated print of this design on the 7th of September 2008…cheers! :) / a BIG THANK YOU to Peita (RB member) who bought a mounted print (size medium) of this design on the 16th of November 2008…cheers! :)
I don’t know why but I just keep coming back to this blossom image.
Walking during the 2008 Cherry Blossom Festival, these quiet benches were just what we were looking for. Nikon D50 / 18-70mm Nikon Lens /
Bewitched She picks boughs of magnolia from the tree in her garden and brings them to me in her fist as though she’s bringing me blooms of her heart to plant as my own. She takes a day off work, treats herself to a drive in the country and leaves 50’s starlet fiction and bites of toffee treacle honey sugar on my doorstep before ringing the bell and skipping away. She reads the language of my face. She paints the clouds with a thousand different reminders, then captures them in a butterfly net and pins them to my wall. She’s the ink and words from a Golden Book come to life. She plays the Mad Hatter so I can play Alice. She knows about the hidden debris, the mess, the harrowed whispers you don’t ever say out loud. And she loves me anyway. copyright © 2008, Holly Ringland.
The small town of Grafton on the NSW north coast is dressed in purple as it’s famous Jacaranda trees bloom. Taken in a local park. Every year the town has a festival to celebrate the blooms / Canon 400D 18/55 mm lens / /
Don’t eat them… haha…. This is growing in my front yard, but I have no idea what kind of tree it is. It has pretty blossoms in the spring though. Enjoy!
” ~ For My Friend Byron ~ 11” / / ~ In Loving Memory of your Mother ~ / / The long winter has passed, and it’s such a joy to see the forest come alive with new buds, and the Dogwoods in bloom. I find myself strolling along through the forest gazing at these blossoms as they brighten up the early spring sky. Native Dogwoods are small shrubs varying in size, and height that thrive under Arkansas hardwood forest. The blooms are approx 1 inch in diameter. Blooms in mid-May. / / If you would you like to ADD YOUR OWN WORDS to create a personal sentiment to this as a greeting card, please / Contact Me / I will make it personal from YOU, to YOUR friends. / / FEATURED IN SPRING BLOOMS 1 24 009
A spring rainstorm has not dampened this young lady’s determination to get out and smell the flowers. So what if she gets a little wet? The beautiful show and fresh air are worth it. Clouds of blossoms and clouds of rain…all is beauty.
Cherry Tree in Blossom / Copyright Featured in / Blooming Trees / Spring Blooms Top Ten in Spring Blooms
Cherry Blossoms TTV Style – the classic spring flower image with a bit of a photographic twist!
Nikon D60 with close up filters / April 20, 2009 , in Boston, MA / This is why I love spring September 4, 2009 Top 10 in Blooming Trees avatar challenge June 3, 2009 – Second /Top Ten of Blooming Trees Avatar Challenge featured in Trees and Tree Parts on April 26, 2009 Second place in Blooming Trees on May 5, 2009 June 16, 2009 – featured in Spring Blooms
Dogwood blossom…
tree created by blowing ink on paper with a straw. / vectors created in illustrator and merged in photoshop.
4/19/2009 in Boston Ma Art of magnolia top 10 in Inside Flowers / August 8, 2009 featured in Color Me a Rainbow on June 18, 2009
It’s Winter in Australia, which means the Wattle is beginning to bloom. In my area we’ll soon be surrounded by a sea of bouncing little balls of yellow…... Did you know : / - Wattle is Australia’s official floral emblem, having adorned our Coat Of Arms since 1912. / - there are around 950 different species of Wattle….. which is why I have no clue as to which one this is! / - On 1 September 1910 the Sydney Morning Herald stated: / “To many Australians the wattle stands for home, country, kindred, sunshine and love; every instinct that the heart most deeply enshrines.”........ nice :) [canon 1000D, canon scanner for texture, PS watercolour] WINNER – Wattle challenge – October 2009
7/24/09 ~ Featured in the Canon DSLR group ~ Thank you sooooo much!!!! I used my little screw-on macro lens (manual focus) to take a picture of the tips of the mimosa blossoms. Taken 7/22/09 in my backyard. Natural light and color Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi / F stop: F/5.6 Exposure: 1/60 sec. Focal length: 55.0 mm / No Flash Shutter speed (Tv): 6 / Used inexpensive screw-on macro lens
from Japanese Garden of Arnold Alboretum / in Boston, MA October 4, 2009 Nikon D60, 18-55mm, nd2, raw Japanese Flower finished in position 3 of Top Ten in December Avatar Challenge of Blooming Trees – 2 p… December 2, 2009 Japanese Flower finished in position 2 of Top Ten in ROUND THE WORLD CHALLENGE – NO. 5 WINNERS ONLY of Blooming Trees – 2 p… November 6, 2009 Japanese Flower was featured in the group Blooming Trees – 2 per day October 31, 2009 / Japanese Flower finished in position 2 of Top Ten in ROUND THE WORLD TREE CHALLENGE No. 3. – USA ONLY of Blooming Trees – 2 p… October 30, 2009
Sydney Town Hall. Loved the way the Jacaranda tree was blooming in front of it. / Texture layers added. Camera – Nikon D90 / 55-200mm
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