Comment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: YOU CAN CALL HER PEONY by Touch2Touch
If I looked like that, I’d be proud and self-confident too!!!! (well, in a human way, that is ;-)
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: YOU CAN CALL HER PEONY by mybrightlife
So enjoying this series…and learning!
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: YOU CAN CALL HER PEONY by Touch2Touch
Makes me so happy to hear that!
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: YOU CAN CALL HER PEONY by oururbanwilderness
A diva, all right, all layered flounces and showiness. we don’t have such exotics here, making it all the more gorgeous to admire.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: COLUMBINE by oururbanwilderness
Coltish and long-legged, that’s a lovely description. There’s a daintiness too, like the cygnets in swan lake and those long legs…
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: YOU CAN CALL HER PEONY by Touch2Touch
She wasn’t a “wild ‘un”, we had planted this diva, and oh, I loved her! No poppies where we are now, none at all.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: COLUMBINE by Touch2Touch
Yes! Thanks so much for your visits and comments, they are MUCH appreciated.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: YOU CAN CALL HER PEONY by Madhu
Such a beauty Judith! And beautifully captured. I have never seen a real Peony!
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: Mlle. POPPY by Madhu
Ah another stunner! Poppies I have seen, but not any as gorgeous as your model :-)
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: YOU CAN CALL HER PEONY by Touch2Touch
Next trip to Japan? China? Western Massachusetts? ;-)
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Barbara
They are beautiful, and so much colour!
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
Thanks, Barb! In pastel New England, we take our color where we find it! Compared to you — small quantities indeed.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
I like ‘em all — but the full heat of summer is taking a toll on them, they’re really delights of spring.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
Color is NOT enhanced in any way! That’s the way Ma Nature made ‘em. :-)
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
That is all so interesting, Fran! I wonder if one would encounter V. cornuta walking the Way to Santiago? Perhaps too high? When you say, aptly, that V. tricolor is the progenitor of the cultivated...
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
A delightful comparison! Thank you :-)
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by franhunne4u
Ooops – I borrowed the knowledge (and the word progenitor, too) from Wikipedia … I am not an expert on flowers. I even thought from your photos that viola tricolore and horned violet were the same …...
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I did some poking around on the ‘Net after I got this interesting comment from you. The images of horned violet (V. Cornuta) look like our “regular” pansies, the cultivated kind that we buy, the second...
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by franhunne4u
Horned violets are not as big as pansies. A friend of mine bought some for decoration on her birthday (late April) – and they are way smaller than a pansy.
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