The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Diagonal Line(s). Go through your photo archives and see what photos you have that fits the current week’s challenge, or better yet grab your camera and take a new photo! ENJOY and have FUN.
Invasive weed or traditional medicine? Common Saint John’s wort is flourishing at the base of the bluffs on Lake Natoma.
Gladiolus is sometimes called the ‘sword lily’, but is usually called by its generic name (plural gladioli).
For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls and its beauty perishes. So will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits — James 1:11, RSV
Even in just one small corner of the Botanic Garden at UC Riverside there are plenty of colorful flowers to point your camera at. I tried to avoid the bright sunshine as much as possible as I wandered; I would really love to go back on an overcast day!
A hollyhock flower, known in Japan as aoi (葵), was incorporated into the official seal of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and through this influence has maintained importance in modern Japanese culture… The Aoi Matsuri (Hollyhock Festival) is one of the three main festivals of the city of Kyoto — from Wikipedia.