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Pure and Simple

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Pure and Simple

Pure and Simple

My gift to you today is pure and simple, a little rose flower. I send it with a link to another post that features the best way that we can help each other. You will find that post here: Aja the Kind Cat . I hope that your day has such moments of kindness, peace and tranquility that seem to be personified in this bloom and in my beautiful cat. Where everything around us is busy and frantic and hectic, take a moment just to appreciate the stillness of this and let the craziness flow past and around you. With that I send a warm hug to all. Flower a Day #519 View all posts on the Home page.  

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Gerbera Sun

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Gerbera Sun

Gerbera Sun

Gerbera daisies are surely among the most cheerful of flowers and so today we are featuring not one, but three of these beauties. Yes, there are two in this photograph, but as a reward for those intrepid visitors to the post on my site, where they can see the full size images, I am also linking to an older post featuring some beautiful frozen ones in this ‘Jubilation’ post and this ‘Hold Your Heads Up one. Even though frozen (as in these older posts), they still have a joyous feeling about these flowers. I have felt a little frozen in these past few days, so I will be taking a lesson from them to spread joy and be as sunny as this fresh one you see above. If you visit the two linked posts, clicking on the flowers in them could lead you down a rabbit hole of some of my blur (Jubilation) and flower (Hold Your Heads Up) images. Venture there if you dare! With the sun of this lovely (and not at all frozen) Gerbera daisy, I wish you all a warm and happy day. Flower a Day #518 View all posts on the Home page.  

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Clover Tangle

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Clover Tangle

Clover Tangle

We are back outside in the summer again as I feel sufficiently recovered from my funk to again appreciate these natural beauties. The trouble with being anything more than about 1 or 2 feet in height is that we are so far from the ground. That’s a good thing in many ways, but it can also make it harder for us to really see low growing flowers and plants (and even the insects that populate them). As they are so far beneath us (physically, of course) we have to really get down on our hands and knees to admire all the little intricacies in their world. The leaves and fine tendrils behind these flowers make such a beautiful backdrop for the clover blooms that we know are filled with a delicious nectar that we have all tasted since childhood (when we were about 2 feet from the ground). If I shut my eyes I can almost taste the delicate sweetness. I hope you might have at least a little sweetness in your day, somehow, everyone. Flower a Day #517 View all posts on the Home page.  

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Purple Edged African Violet

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Purple Edged African Violet

Purple Edged African Violet

I have to confess that I got very close to writing a ‘This Project is Coming to an End’ post. I must have let myself get a little low and I started to feel a little burned out, which is never a good thing. Thankfully I prepare my photos and posts a couple of days ahead, so I let myself have a breather and even picked up my camera again, as you can see by today’s photograph. I walked around our African Violet collection, as Steven suggested and saw how many beautiful ones there are. It was refreshing to look again at what is right in front of me, not to yearn for what is not around outside at the moment. So I am still continuing, my friends, I hope you are still getting enjoyment from the daily posts. If not, take a breather yourselves and come back to them with fresh eyes and they might, again, cheer the day a little. Flower a Day #516 View all posts on the Home page.  

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