Rain-speckled Blooms

 #DailyFlowers

 Oh, well... it is time to put fingers to the keyboard again... and prepare another post. Let's begin without much ado... It's been raining across North India and the chill is setting in, and flowers well, they seem to be doing ok at the moment; our farmers are another tale... 

Anyway, Shashi began today with: #DailyFlowers I couldn't wait to post this. This morning, ventured out and outside a office building, we found these flowers. I jumped with joy. What a delight these flowers were. Their beauty enhanced by the rain drops. Colors that helped us remember that if the sun is not up

So, what if the sun is not up
Raindrop decorated flowers fill the cup
Cause happiness and joyful jumps
The day with glorious gorgeousness then pumps
Love the brilliant blue across the green
Oh how raindrops on the flower do preen
Then there was this glorious pink queen
With fine lines on her dainty petals seen
Met in Circa 2016 in the US Botanical Gardens
Her beauty hearts does fill and gladden

Before that he shared a vivid scape: Yay! Let's do this #DailyFlowers! Everyone sharing a photo of flowers and @Kirti a creative verse factory and a group that knows how to make people smile. Thanks.

Real life or painting
Am still myself acquainting
Looks like a hillside maze
With some hidden ways
The plots do shine
Laid out in a fine design 

And then there was my cousin, who sent me a flower with great love

When nature with colors plays
It puts on vibrant displays
Here's one with yellow and pink
Believe me I did very hard blink
Wondered if someone had paint sprayed
Or if mother nature had mischief played

And Shalini one day pitched in with: New year bouquet from my parents...did that make you smile? I was smiling ear to ear when they brought it :)

New year bouquet that brings forth smiles
From parents with love it goes miles
Mums from Dad and Mum, can you that beat
Nothing else needed for the day to be complete
This next bunch didn't mean to compete
But difficult to resist the beauty that I did meet
Two different yellows from across the world
Intense beauty for us bloomed, dangled and twirled

Methinks Vivek got taken in with the before and after series going round on #Twitter

Of beauties on- and off-duty
Vivek spied two cuties
He did bring them to the fore
Now I want some more

Little starlets were also shared by him
White flowers with light pink rims
They bring to mind the old style nine-gem ear rings
Seeing these memories do begin to sing

Bougainvilleas from yesterday. It was hazy so the color isn’t as bright as what the naked eye saw. Used filter in the second pic. Good morning 

Then yesterday he went on the NH44 motoring
There he found more Bougainvilleas flowering
Their pix he did want to stop and take
But his missus would not let him make that mistake
On a high speed road, it would not have been safe
Wise she was though he  at the restrain did chafe 

 This breathtaking shot comes from my friend Sunnila who lives in California but had gone to New Zealand for a holiday. The debate about lupins being a nuisance environmentally continues but meanwhile they give us beautiful vistas...

Shalini yesterday back to New Zealand went
Some beauties her Californian friend did send
Purples and pinks stand true and tall
Environmental nuisance or not, the vista holds us in thrall

This post began with rain drenched flowers from the US, only fair we close it with some from India: It's been raining here in Delhi too and these are flowers clicked by my sister, Rina, in her house after the rains. Good morning, #DailyFlowers

 Blossoms of pink
Did from raindrops deeply drink
Some on their petals did hold
Nature's pure watery gold

 My Co-Contributors

Shashi, Rachna, Shalini & Jola, Vivek and Shalini