Blooms so Sublime

  #DailyFlowers

This last week has been eye-opening and a shocker to boot. Not on the personal front, but in events happening around the world. There's a saying... going out not with a bang, but a whimper! Seemed true of Afghanistan. Slowly, but surely, it fell, bringing in fears (rightly so) of fundamentalist/extremist control and a closing up of society! And, then my city has been rained in this whole week, not so much that roads are flooded, but enough that I wish to see the sun for at least one whole day. It's muggy, grey, wet, damp and worst of all, my evening walks are not happening! They offer a wonderful break after a hard day's work and I get great pleasure in watching various plants bloom, new buds show up everyday, new varieties flourish. But then, the contributors to this blog keep the ball running and they deserve their tributes, don't they.

Bright pink, orange, yellow portulaca in make their way
From Udayji & Rachna come beautiful displays
To tell the truth, isn't a varietal I really like
But their colors do the day's vibrancy spike

Give me flowers, I will give you rhymes
For blooms that are so sublime
That sing songs and do in chime
With melodies that we hear sometimes
Flowers, they sing loud and true
Blessing us with varied hues

Up next are delicate creams, yellows & whites
In combination with others they offer delights
Bold, tall, beautiful, epitomizing grace
Their very presence lighting up every place

 

 Roses in plenty are still sticking around
To traditional seasons they are not this time bound
The honeybee does them especially adore
Landing gently, it is all set the bloom to explore

Brilliant yellows contrasted with a magenta-maroon
Offering yet another chance with nature to commune
Galphimia Glauca and Indian Ginger Head
Make for an interesting spread

 Deep vivid tones with the gentle do contrast
Offer up yet another stunning repast
Ageratum Houstonianum
A complicated name and then some
With others to greet us has come

 

New pix of the same species & same tree, different flower
More such blooms did Vivek & Shashi on us shower
Ixora, hollyhock, adenium did also join the game
And all blended beautifully in one happy frame

My Co-Contributors

UdayBaxi & Rachna; Vivek, Deepak & Sai; Vivek & Shashi; Shashi, Shalini, Mahesh & Sai; Shalini, Deepak & June;  UdayBaxi, Shashi & Vivek; UdayBaxi & Shalini; UdayBaxi, Deepak & Vivek; Shashi, Vivek, UdayBaxi & Shalini;