Orange Flares
My neighbor down the street cultivates a beautiful flower garden that borders both her driveway and Central St. It’s impossible to drive by without stopping to take pictures, and yesterday’s overcast skies and recent rain made her orange poppies pop. Near those poppies is a purple flower that up close looks like a Hubble photo of the universe.
From Mary Oliver’s Poppies:
The poppies send up their
orange flares; swaying
in the wind, their congregations
are a levitation
of bright dust, of thin
and lacy leaves.
Wow, that poppy belongs in a frame next to the blue bottle, or in an art exhibition my Mirreau!
Comment by smiling dan — June 6, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
Thanks for taking these, Michael. You have a knack for making my garden look better than it really is!
Comment by BirdBrain — June 6, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
Oh- and the purple flower is Allium (in the Onion family of plants).
Comment by BirdBrain — June 6, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
I like this one too, with the poppy in the background.
How did you know it was your yard?
Comment by michael — June 6, 2008 @ 6:08 pm
Hazy heat, 15 hours of light, and dew without a spray bottle — Mike and his macro are back in their element. I, too, like the comment iris post — a less “perfect” blossom, a bit tired after the mating game. I wonder what the shutter crop was (before it became square … ).
Comment by el Kib — June 9, 2008 @ 6:56 am
I thought you were writing an homage to our (finally, God have mercy on my cold tired soul) blessed weather. Looks like more days in the nineties, and, oh my, all that sun justa washing that long winter right out of my eyes. Hate to think that in two weeks we’ll be on the backside of all this.
Comment by michael — June 9, 2008 @ 9:02 am
“How did I know it was my garden?” I know my flowers
personally!
Now – run over to my garage and take a pic of the baby robins in the nest – on the ladder – just inside the door….
Comment by BirdBrain — June 9, 2008 @ 10:38 am
“Hate to think that in two weeks we’ll be on the backside of all this” — and presumably you’ll be shivering?
After reading in the Denver paper about the beastly heat and humid ditty presently infesting the eastern seaboard, we were shuddering to think about it, here in the crisp Boulder warmth. Particularly since we’ll be visiting the younger rakkities out there in a couple of weeks.
But I knew that there was ONE person out there who was relishing the h&h, and desperately hoping for more.
Comment by rakkity — June 10, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
That 6th picture looks like Lambs Ears. It’s very popular in xeriscape gardens here (we’ve got some, and we never water it.) Later on in the summer, it produces small purple blossoms.
If I’m right, I’m amazed that it thrives equally well in hot, dry places as well as in humid, wet Wacton!
Comment by rakkity — June 10, 2008 @ 6:03 pm