Natural Beauty

Lemme just share with you a couple of flowers I have in my collection. There was a time when everyday I'd go out and find a subject for macro shots. I mostly found flowers. 

Some are something unidentified pieces of nature on the field. :)

More of nature's beauty here:

I Heart Macro

Macro Monday 2

Nature's Notes

White is the color of Freshness

It is definitely spring in our part of the world. With temperature as high (low) as -5 plus the sun shining up high on the clear blue sky, that means a foolproof spring :) Yay! 

It feels fresh and much lighter with shorter jacket and thinner boots.

It is fresh; the air, the sun, the smells an the sounds - they seem to be all so "new".

I have collected my collection of white flowers to share with you. I hope they bring spring freshness to your eyes. 

The above pictures are from the old botanical garden I have mentioned to you before. They're fields of chamomile. Walking in the middle of it made me want to sing... "the hills are alive, with the sound of music" :)

This is the white magnolia which I found at the graveyard in China. Alright grave doesn't  seem to fit in this "freshness" sorry. There was this Memorial Park for the contemporary Heroes. The place is nice, very quiet and very well taken cared of. If you go there, it won't  really give you the feeling that you're  visiting a graveyard. It wasn't. It has lots of magnolias, pink & white blossoms in spring.

This rose is from the shop :) I've just recived it not long time ago.

I t's a pity I don't have more pictures of this. It's  from my mom's garden. It's called sampaguita, I  just don't know if it has other names. It smells very fragrant. Maybe it's  a jasmine family.

I hope you're having a fresh spring.

I'm  linking this post to:

Floral Friday

I Heart Macro

Mosaic Monday

Pink is the Color of Spring

Well, not only of course. I'm  just saying 'cause pink is my color today. It's spring and I'm seeing lots of posts with and about flowers. I thought of sharing more of what I have. 

Please don't  be confused. I live in Russia at the moment and these flowers I'm posting today don't grow here (at least not this early and not this much). (neither in the Phils.)

These flowers were from the University Campus in China. They're  peach and cherry blossoms...if I 'm not mistaken. You already know that I  am not the rightest person to ask when it comes to plants :)

For more flowers around the world, please check the links below:

Floral Friday Foto

Today's Flowers

I Heart Macro

Mosaic Monday

For the Love of Spring

One of the best times when I was still in China was spring. I'd go out everyday to photograph flowers. Each day there is something different. If you carefully pay attention to every change, you'll see how gracefully they are blooming to give beauty to the world. How enchanting it is.

There were fields of them often visited by local wedding photographers and some locals who'd walk around. There aren't any tourists, it wasn't a place advertised for them. That made it best for me & hubs for then we had all the time & space to make pictures. Sometimes I 'd just sit there and watch bees, butterflies and other tiny creatures catch them as they sway along with the wind.

There was an old zoo & botanical garden in the city. There, flowers & insects & some animals are livin in harmony. Since it is old, nobody really goes there (but we did) for everyone is attracted to the everything that is new & modern.

If there's  one thing I really miss about China, it is spring.

To see more of beautiful flowers & artistic collages, check the links below:

Today's Flowers

I Heart Macro

Mosaic 

Greenthumb vs. Yellowthumb

They're orchids but I can't  tell you the exact kind and

name. 

This yellow one I guess is called Dancing Lady, at least I  heard my mom call it that name.

Lately I've been showing you around my Mom's garden. I think I'm feeling spring. I started craving for colors, for scents and warmth. Looking at the pictures from back home somehow gives me this feeling that "life"... "something alive" exists and it's  on its way. It makes me feel excited and happy.

I just don't know if it's  spring or a premonition that I am surely leaving the country. Ehh. I still haven't got any answer by the way. It's  supposed to come at the end of this month. Few more days and hopefully the agony of waiting will be over. I don't  know, I kinda got tired of thinking about it. Come what may. If it's  meant, it will happen.

Back to garden and gardening. Are you a greenthumb? I am not. I suck when it comes to taking care of plants. I don't  know how come I  never learned from my grandfather who was a greenthumb. I spent my childhood at theirs. I was there all those times he was in his garden. I've helped him water all his kind of plants. Watering was probably not enough to make me a greenthumb :)

My mom's a greenthumb too. She's  grown a lot of different fruit bearing trees and flowers in our ftont and backyard. I have no idea how she does it. Anything she sows simply grows, note, without any exception. She even has 3 bonsais. They are difficult to grow I suppose. 

My Mom-in-law isn't  a greenthumb. Many of her indoor plants are of pretty primitive kind. Those which does not need much care. Some of them wither and survive again, others just die. Can I call her yellowthumb in that case? 

I am a yellowthumb by birth and by practise. I have never grown my own plant yet. I mean I tried but they got sick and died or stayed malnourished. :(

I like plants, flowering plants in particular but it's  a pity I can't  grow them well.

Recently, my mom-in-law asked me for help to save her anthurium from dying. Hubs and I presented it to her last year for her and father-in-law's wedding anniversary. It lived beautifully until this month when it started looking more and more unhealthy.

I thought that I was the wrongest person to ask. Aghh I  even feel stressed just by touching this flower. They say you have to feel your plants in order to grow them well. But I  honestly can't feel it. I mean I feel it's  beauty and stuff, in fact I admire them very much. I just don't  know how and what to do with them. Well, do you?

See more beautiful flowers on the link below

Floral Friday Foto

Daffodil?

It was growing in my Mom's garden in summer. I've always thought that the name of this flower is daffodil. I checked google for images and this exact type didn't  come out. If you happen to know the right name for this flower, I'll be happy to know.

Feel free to check the rest of macros and collages below:

Macro Monday 2

I Heart Macro

Mosaic Monday