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Kelsey Annie Joy

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A pinky yellow collarette dahlia with spikey pink inner pettals surround an orange centre. In this centre with its head buried, drinking the nectar. The background is a dark green with light spots.
Kelsey Annie Joy

Well, it is the end of the season, so I can’t stop myself sharing another of our beautiful flowers. This time it’s a new dahlia for us, this year. All of our flowers were so slow to bloom due to the poor weather this year, but they have all outdone themselves at this end of the season. This gentle beauty with her smaller flowers, so aptly named, really does bring me Joy, as I hope she does to you.

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Brown Eyed Susan Visitor

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A flower with mostly yellow petals radiating out from a brown cone centre has an orange, black and white striped bee on its centre. The petals look as if the brown centre has leaked onto the yellow, staining them brown for a little up towards the tip.

Have a great day, friends! This brings me memories of my Flower A Day project, combining two of my favourite subjects – wildflowers and insects, particularly pollinators. This beautiful splash of yellow petals, stained with rich brown attracted me as much as the bee feeding on it. These flowers appeared one year in a field, never to reappear, so I was so glad to have captured a special time.

Pink Frilled Violet Study

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Pink Frilled African Violet

Pink Frilled African Violet

It has certainly been very strange for me, not making my daily posts. In some ways it has been really good as I have had a chance to step back and take stock of what I wanted to do next. Of course I couldn’t resist picking up my camera and taking these photographs of this beautiful, frilled white edged African Violet. While editing them, I had some difficulty deciding which of the pictures to show you on this, my first post project entry. Then I thought it would be nice to feature three different views as a kind of a study. As I am not committed to daily entries, I can allow myself this luxury and bring to you, my website visitors three different views of this variety. I like this idea of showcasing flowers on a plant from different perspectives and hope that you’ll like it, too. I might see if I can do this kind of study from time to time as a theme – “Beauty From Different Angles”. I hope you enjoy this first in the series. To view the flower fullscreen and the new gallery click on a flower or click to go here: “Flowers”. View all posts on the Home Page

This second flower has this lovely drooping bud behind it to the left that appealed to me, with its promise of more to come.

Pink Frilled African Violet View 2

Pink Frilled African Violet View 2

The last view is almost demure, hiding the yellow centre from us, but has an appeal all of its own, with the opening bud behind and to the right, ready to be fully open very soon.

Pink Frilled African Violet View 3

Pink Frilled African Violet View 3

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Last Project Post

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Pnk and Red Kalanchoe

Pink and Red Kalanchoe

So this wraps it up. This patch of pretty pink and red Kalanchoe flowers represents to me all of you, my dear friends and visitors who have been with me on this journey. Now this project is coming to a close. Every day for the past 534, I have enjoyed sharing with you all my collection of photographs of flowers, in the hopes of bringing you some cheer and briefly taking your minds off any worries and stresses in your lives. In doing so I have also briefly been focused on something other than my own cares and concerns, so perhaps we both have benefited equally. Thank you all for your continued and faithful support and encouragement. Your comments and notes to me have made me smile and brightened my day. I will still continue to share posts and photographs from time to time, so I hope to hear from you again when that happens. Until then, my friends, please take care and remember to look closely at the world you inhabit and enjoy the beauty that is around you. I send my love and a hug to you all. Flower a Day #534 View all posts on the Home page.  

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