Spring time blooms,
have long since passed,
as summer sun bakes the land.
Prickly cacti,
wake and yawn.
Emboldened by the heat,
they burst with blooms.
Delicate blossoms,
grace the garden.
Cheers to you from The Holler’s Summer Bloomers~
So vibrant and colorful. I love all that sunshine too. 😀
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So happy you enjoyed & hope you have a wonderful week!
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Mow I know what they mean by “color popping”.
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Mother Nature rocks her colors doesn’t she!
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Beautiful summer set of pictures!
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Thanks so much & cheers to you Alexander!
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Wow! fantastic photo. My wife has a flower farm and sells fresh-cut bouquets. I wish we had your talent for photography. It would sure help with the marketing. 🙂
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If I lived close I would do a post on your farm!
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your summer blooms are gorgeous Cindy. I still love your gorgeous pictures
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Ahh, I am honored thank you & be well.
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you are welcome Cindy.
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You must really enjoy photography. Your pictures are so “REAL”.
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So happy you enjoyed and thank you for letting me know!
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❤
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Such a delight to see your closeups of flowers in bloom, sun shining and life as still surrounded in beauty. 🙂 ❤
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There is such beauty, isn’t there, everywhere. Like there is in you. Be well my friend. ❤
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Aw, you are special my friend. ❤ 🙂
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Visa versa 2 U X 2!
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❤
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Gorgeous!
Alison
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Are you still in Japan?
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No, back in Vancouver after 4 weeks in China after Japan. Blog is way behind as usual. xo
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So good of you. You did this on your own. Must feel quite amazing, and possibly a lot of other emotions and thoughts. All of which I wish I could hear. But just know, I admire you greatly. Always.
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Thank you. Humbled. Next post (tomorrow or the next day) is about all the emotions. ❤
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You go Girl? ❤ I can't wait to read and see it.
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Grossartige Bilder Cindy. Danke fürs zeigen…
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Danke fur Ihre freundliche Aufmerksamkeit, Ernst
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I see that your words are blooming too–a lovey poem there, scattered among the desert flowers.
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Ahh, so kind of you to notice and comment. Thank you & cheers too~
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Aren’t flowers just magnificent !? You have captured their beauty well.
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There are little Mother Nature’s little miracles ❤
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Summer is baking the UK this year, too. I have a garden full of brilliant but thirsty flowers, and those in pots need watering twice a day, but they’re worth all the hard work. I’m afraid my garden and the sunshine are a major diversion from my computer, hence my long absences from visiting my dear friends’ blogs. Please forgive me, Cindy. I’m sure the rain will come again and drive me indoors!
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Heat waves are impacting all over the globe right now, but twice a day watering in the UK sounds rather intense. I hope you are enjoying the warmth & cheers to you Sarah ❤
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Yes, I love the warmth, as I’m skinny and normally feel the cold, which means the winter is utter misery to me. I’m not into sunbathing as such, and like to sit in the shade to read outside, but love going for walks in the sun and doing my gardening.
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I remember being in Burford for the summer when I was young and a heatwave hit. I have never seen so many sunburnt people all at once in my life! So good for you, stay in the shade. Britain is so very beautiful in the summertime ❤
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Though we had to water our plants regularly the extreme beautiful Summer gave Europeans some lovely time to enjoy nature, though we here have no opportunity to see such beautiful cacti flowers thanks for sharing them with us.
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I read your post about the effects of the heat wave and other bloggers have been talking about it too. I am sure it made the summer lovely especially in the colder areas. It has been the hottest year on record here too. Thank you for your kind thoughts & cheers to you ❤
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It’s a little startling, sometimes, the beauty of the flowers that come popping out of a prickly cactus. And I’m struck by how much the pistil looks like a particular type of coral polyp.
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Oh, yes, as soon as you mentioned the coral, I knew exactly what you were saying. Coral blooms do look like flowers.
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The details are amazingly beautiful, Cindy! We hope to get some rain…
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Thanks much and we would love some rain too!
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Pretty, pretty. Cheers to you!
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Cheers & Happy 4th ❤
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the flowers are so perfect they look like crepe paper flowers, my Mum bought me a book of how to make paper flowers and I think I’ll use these photos for ideas and colours 🙂 looking again at these I think it’s important to put in a few different colours and brown some of the edges to make them more realistic.
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Yes, that would be lovely. I used to make tissue paper flowers and I still delicate flowers with this wrinkly texture by this name. Happy Creating Charlotte ❤
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Gorgeous flowers🌺🌺🌺
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We are blessed with beauty all around us ❤
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Yes🌹🌹🌹🌹💖
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It always amazed me that such lovely flowers would grow on cactus plants… Cindy these are amazing shots — the lighting, clarity… and the detail is extraordinary. Happy Fourth of July. Hugs.
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You are such a sweet friend Teagan, not to mention the awesome co-creator of the wonderful Hula-Baloo-Lulu. Happy 4th my friend ❤
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Beautiful!
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Merci beaucoup mon Ami ❤
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The photos of the flowers are lovely. Absolutely gorgeous. I love the baby owl story. So sweet. I’m finding it hard to comment on post and WordPress still won’t let me like any posts. It’s so frustrating. Cheers to you Cindy. Thank you for sharing such wonderful life-giving moments.
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Time to email WP Happiness Engineers so they can make you happy again with WP! Good luck my friend ❤
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It’s really quite amazing that something so delicate can arrive on these prickly cacti ! You really must have to watch where you walk or back up in your garden 😀 Being such a klutz, I’m sure to be the one you’d find impaled in there. I guess you don’t have any problem with critters nibbling on your plants either. It’s all very exoctic and beautiful through your lens. It’s the only view of the desert I’ll probably ever enjoy because I fear the heat. I’m so climatized to cooler weather, even Washington, DC was too hot for me. I damn near turned Alys and Pauline into popsicles with the AC in our room, LOL ! x K
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I am reading a book titled, “The Last Frontiersman,” about a guy from Wisconsin who is one of the most isolated homesteaders in Alaska. He says 20 below is mild, “sweater weather!” I was in 50F below once and that was enough for me. Silly me thought it was warming up since the frozen river was smoking. I stepped outside and learned fast! Both extreme heat and cold suck the sap out of you. 105F hits your body like a force much like deep water pressing on you from all sides, 115F and up, just sucks the life out of you, quickly.
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Holy snap! 115F and I’d be finished for sure. If it his 30 C (86 F) I’m whining big time. it was 32 C here a couple of weeks ago and I couldn’t even be outside. I’m with Mr Frontiersman, cool is better but I wouldn’t be out in a sweater at -20 F (-28C), LOL….but that’s pretty normal here over winter. It’s the wind that get’s you though 😀
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Stunning
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Thank you very much & lovely to meet you!
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Spectacular blossoms Cindy!! the texture, the color!!! Cactus are under rated!! Hope your summer is going so well! Any travels ahead??!
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All sorts of things are coming up, travel and twins! My daughter is almost in her third trimester. She is calm as can be. I am a wreck 😉
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So exciting!! Our daughter is expecting her 2nd beginning of September. Is she close by?? Hope so. It’s hard to not want to rush out and get all those cute baby things (and books!) when you know there’s a new baby about to appear. So happy for you– twins!!! I know she’ll be glad to have your help! xox
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Unfortunately for me, I don’t need to rush out. Amazon is extremely helpful in this way. I wrote myself a note saying “No More.”
Laughing.
She isn’t here. She is in Northern California and I am in Southern, but I will be there soon, with her, for our last days together before she becomes a mother. OF TWINS!!!
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I know she’ll be so grateful to have your help and encouragement. Our daughter is up north too (in SF) so I’ll be heading up in about 4 weeks. Blessings on those 2 new little lives. So much joy! xox
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I am heading up in 2.5 weeks. Maybe sometime we can meet ❤
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Soon! How is she feeling?? Sleeping?? I know she’ll be glad to have you come in the door! Such exciting days! God Bless these two new little lives. xox
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She is working as a psychotherapist, but has gone to half days. She is feeling great, but at 26 weeks hasn’t gotten to the can’t find a comfortable position phase, and she is quite petite, so I imagine it will get a bit crowded. God Bless the little children, each and every one, and you too Rhonda.
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So much ahead! Praying with you that all goes so well and you’ll find so much joy welcoming this new little life. Glad she can manage to work half days–and be baby ready! Here’s to all the fun of watching these little ones grow and flourish!! Enjoy every minute Cindy!
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Hugs to you Rhonda & cheers too. ❤ ❤
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Oh, my, there are beautiful blooms. It is amazing that something so lovely can come from something like a cactus!
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It is indeed. Prickly cacti make the most delicate blooms. Miraculous~
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Amazing photos!
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Thank you very much & lovely to meet you!
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nice
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Thank you & lovely to meet you~
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How beautiful Cindy.
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So kind of you! Thank you & cheers to you ❤
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You take us to dreams, Thanks.<3
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I so enjoy having you along, so thank you more ❤
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Thank you, my pleasure ❤️
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❤ ❤
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Beautiful pictures…thank you!
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Thank you much more.
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Beautiful ❤
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Takk fyrir!
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Merci beaucoup!
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