Contest - 'Flowers'

We have had Winds and Showers, now we need your photographs of Flowers .


The deadline for entries ends on 24 May 2018 @ 24h00, the voting poll will be held from 25 - 31 May. All entries to be submitted via personal message to alisonb. The winner will be announced on 1 June. If you wish to submit a 'landscape format' photograph instead of our usual 640x480 pix please feel free to do so.

This should be a good one, flowers blooming everywhere.

Three entries already

May be one or 2 still blooming here, but spring is about done and early summer is upon us. It was 91F yesterday.

greybeard":2q66bexy said:

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Sweet smelling flowers one of my favorites

Looks like an offshore trolling rig you're fishing with.

ga.prime":htl9ula3 said:

Looks like an offshore trolling rig you're fishing with.

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Have you ever see those pictures of ordinary sized crocodiles, that look huge because of how close the camera is located to the croc in relation to everything else in the photo?
Just a medium duty shakespeare rod, about 20 years old..or more.
(the bass tho, was really small)

10-4, GB.

Bump

I'm working on it!.. I have to see what I have that's recent and what I have from years ago.. I have a lot of pictures.

Right now the hawthorns and false orange bushes are blooming... can smell them from a mile away, it's a nice smell but it's sooo strong it's just about too much to handle

When I was very young and in school, I had to memorize and recite this poem. I've never forgotten it, and think of it every time I see a field of red flowers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6BlOkpdkg8

I have lots, but, I cannot send you a pic in a private message, as the "post image" function is no longer there for me.

I'd be glad to e-mail you one.

Taken years ago and it popped up on FB this morning.

Maypop flower?

ga.prime":1y34y5f4 said:

Maypop flower?

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Passion flower.

slick4591":1736p8vc said:

Taken years ago and it popped up on FB this morning.

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used to see lots of those or something very similar, along rr track row's. I haven't seen any in a very long time..

You probably were seeing maypops, GB. Google images of maypops and you'll see what I mean.

Looks like the same flower. Never heard them called a maypop before.

From Wikipedia-
"Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 550 species of flowering plants, the type genus of the family Passifloraceae."

Maypops are just one of the 550 species of passion flower. They grow wild all over the place here. When I was a youngin we'd pick the maypops and throw at each other. They're about the same size as a chicken egg. They taste about the same as a green watermelon.