lol - Sorry couldn't resist.

do Crate Mertals count ??
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No, because crepe myrtles are disgusting, horrible weeds.

Looks like the stuff out of which they make parade floats.

It's actually a water lily and not a lotus.

Really? I think they're so pretty. :p:

They're pretty in someone else's yard, sure. It only gets unpleasant when the pink things are glued to your windshield like tissue paper, and your walkway is covered with those big seed casing things that manage to stab and roll under your feet at the same time...

Ahhh...they've always looked so pretty in someone else's yard for me. :D

Giant Hibiscus

Some other Hibiscus

Brown-Eyed Susan

Miniature Rose.

Minature-er rose.

Don't believe me: most of the tip of my left forefinger in the second shot for scale....

:eek:

Can any one identify these flowers for us?
 

yikes, sorry so big! Lemme try that again.
They are incredibly tiny, less than 1/2 an inch across, and pop up early in the spring in the grass.

They're called "flowers".

Looks like a tiny krokus. What do they look like closed?

@ZenGum...weisenheimer. I oughta pistil in your stamen!
@jimhelm, not sure. They are long gone and I don't recall seeing them closed.

Sounds like them, too - out in the lawn.

Do the "leaves look like grass? If they do, they're crocus.

hm.. wrong number of petals for crocus, 5 vs 6. Whereabouts in the country does this five petaled flower flower?

Thanks to the Wildflower Identifier at: http://www.realtimerendering.com/flowers/flowers.html

I think it might be a Broad-leaved or Carolina Spring-beauty (Claytoniacaroliniana).

http://wildflowers.perverdonk.com/Sp...ral%20Lake.jpg

BigV, we're in north central Ohio.
Rhianne, that's a great reference for wild flowers, Thanks!
After closer consideration, I'll agree that it's a Spring Beauty, but probably the Virginia variety due to the length of the leaves. The Caroliniana has broad oblong leaves, but you couldn't readily see that from my shot. Here's a different shot of them {sorry so washed out} relative to a common dandelion.

I changed my mind, They do have the broad leaves, also the flower petals overlap slightly whereas the Virginia variety does not.
ClaytoniaCaroliniana it is.
Rhianne, ftw.

I thought they look cute with their surroundings, so I snapped a picture.

:)

Lots of cherry blossoms pictures:


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Plus one creepy fish guy:

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Great way to jump this thread from Winter into Spring.

I really like the classic view of the Washington Monument (#3) and particularly the gnarly tree (#5).
My G-son and I come across them along rivers and try to imagine
what sorts of lives they've had with floods and storms and still keep growing.

Nice series !

Nice pics.

The Bradford Pear trees around these parts kept their blossoms for about fifteen minutes. Same for the plum and apple trees.

Don't know what that says for the coming summer...

In the park

Brown-Eyed Susan (this one's about the size of a quarter)

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Giant Hibiscus (wind flipped one of the big petals)

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My flowers have not taken the heat well at all.

brown-eye susan....is that what they're called? :)

Your giant hibiscus is huge!! Well, that's why they're called giant. :p:

yes, lola

We always called them Black-eyed Susans.

There was this really mean girl at campfire girl camp whose name was Susan and we were on a scavenger hunt and one item was a black-eyed susan so I said "here, you hold her and I'll punch her in the eye." She was so jealous of my wit and horseriding ability. :lol:

There are Black-Eyed Susans, as well as Brown-Eyed Susans.

I think.

A black-eyed susan by any other name would still look as black.

OMG...how offensive.

Actually, it's same flower/different name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudbeckia_hirta

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If I didn't actually know I would have given a half an answer and made it sound like I actually know something and think that someone else would come along and actually give an answer other than "yeah I think that's it because where i live they have them and it only means they have them and then sometimes it doesn't mean that at all" a la
RiGHT TO WORK.

:rant:

Ooookay.

(No one gets me anymore. When you ain't gotten, you got no givin' to give cause your givin' ain't gonna get gotten and I get goaded grandly. God, to be gotten or getted.)



















;)

I get it. Often enough.

Pictures of Flowers
 

I really like the classic view of the Washington Monument (#3) and particularly the gnarly tree My G-son and I come across them along rivers and try to imagine. what sorts of lives they've had with floods and storms and still keep growing.i love flowers and i really like printing papers of flowers.

Dara seems to be a bot, or has a very similar life to Lamplighter.

It does sound familiar, doesn't it :confused:

Awww... don't ban it. It's not intolerably irritating, is it? It's interesting. Let's see what it does! Come on... please?

It seemed to be leading up to an ad for some sort of printing service. Several of its posts were a snippet of some other post added to a reference to printing.

Were they all photography related?

All five of the posts were in photo-related threads. Two mentioned printing, one of those mentioned posters in particular. A third post mentioned quality of paper.

Now as Google and FB send their crawlers to The Cellar,
they will code us as an underground print shop

The question remains:

... subversives ? ... forgers ? ... porno ? ... church bulletins ? ... recipes ?

I'm fine with the first three.

I say we specialize.

Subversive pornography forgers.

but now it's band and weal never no.

(parse that you robot you)

Meanwhile, some long stem roses from my back yard. They're over three feet long.

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Nice fedora.

V ... any updated pics of the terrarium/aquarium?

A water lily, taken today at Powell Gardens in Johnson County, MO.

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but this stuff makes my dick hard.

C'mon, we saw what was making your dick hard while she was taking the pictures of the flowers. ;) :lol2:

These just bloomed.
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Pretty, what are they?

It snowed here last night, the only thing that bloomed was ice crystals.

Is it some kind of Rose of Sharon?

Vurry nize.

I know the Viet name but not the English one. Let me see if the tag is still on the tree tomorrow.

Beautiful blooms

What's the Viet name?

Years ago I had a couple of old rose bushes/trees with blooms like that. Rosa mundi was one. They're beautiful.