Thursday, July 26, 2012

Summer Hydrangeas


Summer Hydrangeas
Front lawns, porches, white fences.
Run through the sprinkler.



I have prepared this post so as to participate in Floral Friday Fotos and Haiku My Heart!

38 comments:

  1. Only one hydrangea put out 2 blooms..not as pretty as these...

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    1. Thanks Michelle! There was a great one across the street from me...big pink and blue blooms on the same bush!

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  2. Hi Libby, yes this is lovely, very pink. However, i still prefer the blue if i am the gardener. We cannot grow hydrangeas to its full glory in the hot tropics!

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    1. My neighbors had pink and blue on the same bush - so cool!

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  3. Calling by from FFF, I love the delicate beauty of your hydrangeas.

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  4. Aren't they just magnificent ? Mine are struggling due to the heat and dry but thank you for sharing yours in word and photo !
    Happy Friday !

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    1. Yea...I worry about this drought. They say the farmers' crops are not doing well :(

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  5. Ah yes, I don't know or ever seem to have the need to learn the names of these and other beautiful flowers, but I can recognize a sprinkler on a hot summer day sure enough. Very pleasant thoughts and photos. lovely Haiku.

    Peace

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    1. Hey Spadoman! I mean need to run through the sprinklers for old time sake... Or...have you ever tried a slip n slide? That's a blast :)

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  6. Great pics, and what a refreshing last line.

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    1. We need it! It's been a SCORCHER over here!

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  7. did you grow these ones?

    mine made the smallest,
    saddest
    blooms
    as they love to drink you know!
    sots, they are!!
    and we are still in drought


    yes
    yes
    certainly
    your haiku captured the evocative mood
    of these sweet flowers
    & i call Hydrangeas ---> grandmother flowers
    as mine had them in her yard
    beside
    the back kitchen door
    and
    even as i read your poem
    i can hear the sprinklers
    and
    smell the water in the air...


    {{ thank you for that,
    so much }}

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    1. They are Grandmother Flowers! Really old fashioned in kind of a retro, summer-of-my-childhood way!

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  8. Oh, I need to run through the sprinkler! Lovely photos.

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  9. oh...your haiku is a song of summer JOY!
    love love love it!

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  10. The pink of your picture and your haiku take me back to my granny's yard and being a small child... with so much life to come... and the embrace of her arms that hold me still as I remember... thank you so!

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    1. You are the second person that said that hydrangeas remind them of their grandmothers! For that reason alone, we should all plant some!

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  11. Very beautiful haiku and photos are wonderful ~~ thanks, namaste, (A Creative Harbor)

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  12. such beautiful hydrangeas, I think I prefer that colour to the blue...

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  13. Love the haiku -- and the hydrangea looks familiar -- we thought alike this week ;>)

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  14. Hi Sallie - I just clicked over and looked at your hydrangeas - WOW! Love the light purple and the two colors on one bush photo too! Thanks for coming by :)

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  15. Beautiful captures, Libby!

    Thank you for participating in Floral Friday Fotos!

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  16. What a beautiful pink bouquet, through your words and photos! :)

    Leo

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