Tulips

Seen growing at the Reader Rock Garden.

Needed a change of colour in my photostream after so much orange recently! The only wildflowers I'm finding at the moment are Prairie Crocuses, so I went to Safeway:) Like lots of other Flickr members, I can never resist taking photos looking deep into the centre of the flowers. Thanks for your patience!

Fallen petals reveal greater beauty! Same with people - look deep into their hearts and hopefully you will find the true beauty.

I have avoided posting this since mid-May last year because it is totally blurry. However, there is just something I like about it - the rounded ears and the contrasting colours : ) Oops, guess I got so carried away thinking about green elephants, that I forgot to add (just in case you didn't recognize it) that this is part of the centre of a Tulip, the thick, central part - stigma??? Thanks, Machel, for the reminder : ) Every time I come across this image in my files, though, I notice the "ears", (seen from the rear end?) ha. I think this was the very first time I tried using my little Raynox 250, and all I could get was BLUR, lol.

Wasn't sure whether to post this one or not, as it doesn't look very carefully photographed (i.e. if I'd taken a bit more time, I would have angled my camera to avoid the bit of "mess" where stem meets flower and would have removed the leaf on the left.). Light indoors was not good. I love the zig-zag edges to this Tulip's petals - I don't usually see Tulips like this one. Bought, as usual, from Safeway : ) LOL, I'm still waiting for some sunlight to come pouring through my window so that I can get another chance to try again before these flowers die. The "flame" pattern inside is really neat, too - hoping that at least one of the flowers will open before it whithers and dies : )

Time for another splash of vibrant colour to add to my photostream. A beautiful, golden Tulip photographed at the Reader Rock Garden on May 16th.

Such elegance!

The beauty that we miss when we don't really LOOK.

Couldn't resist removing some of the petals to get a glance at the insides.