A rose is a rose is a rose....

Black and white or color?

Which do you like best the black and white or the color version of these photos?

Water Lilies and Water Lotus

Water Lotus

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

--Iris Murdoch

Close up of the center of a water lily.

One of the waterlilies I have in the yard.

Right after a rain!

Catcus and Broms

This little beauty was blooming in a pot in the front yard. I thought you guys might enjoy looking at it.

This is the bloom of one of my bromiliads. The actual plan stands almost 4 feet tall, orange leaves if it's in the sun or pale if it's not in the sun.


This is another bloom, see the spider web?

Broms have the most unusual blooms!

Ok this picture has nothing to do with flowers - but ain't they the cutest!!!!

Finally a new post

I really think its time for more flowers - How about you? What do you mean it's about time I did a new post let alone a flower post? Ok fine you do have a point, I have been very lax this year on posting. Sorry about that.

One of the water lillies I have after a rain.

An airplant that I turned into a water color using Photoshop.

Clerodendrum paniculatum - I have 4 different types of clerodendrum's, this one I've let grow wild in the garden. I have a picture of one of the other's that I will post later.

Vanda cross - Look really close at the center of the flower, see the smiley face?

Another air plant - it's an Tillandsia stricta from Brazil taken at a trade show.

Sorry to have taken so long getting a new post up but with the surgery and all - I've gotten a little behind. I was hoping to update these pages the week I was off but found out fast that there was not sitting at a computer for any length of time without my knee swelling.

Ok enough with the excuses and bring on the pictures right? Here is a nice series of photos that I really like, I hope you do too. I'm not going to tell you what this flower is, I want you to guess.

Enjoy
Dale