Lupine, Up Close & Personal

I honestly didn't really plan on it, but most of my blooming flora are PINK right now!! I like to think it's Karma: all in honor of the newest little girl papoose that is still a bud herself (insert a heart here, tee hee)

Lupine!

Here is another "new" flower this year: She's really taking off for a first year flower. The leaves are as appealing as the petals.

Echinacea (aka: Cone Flower)

This cool flower is one of the hardiest perinnials ever!

I have a zillion & 1/2 purple ones, but found this lovely pink one late last autumn down in Tennessee. I wasn't sure if it would survive the winter, but it did. I cannot wait to see the outcome of this unique bud . Hopefully, it will be as prolific as the purples & will soon spread all over creation.

June Twenty-Ten!

Good grief...I haven't posted anything for months & months. (and months) It's time to get with the program; I want to look at my photos in the midst of Indiana Winter & remember the purtiness of Spring & Summer.

One of my most favorite flowers (besides the SUNFLOWER, of course) is this Poppy. The fragile leaves always remind me of Mare's paper cupcake liners. The flower is such a botonical oxymoron: Paper thin delicate petals surrounded by a thick prickly thorny covering, leaves & stem!