Mastodawn

Before I take off, here's a busy bumblebee for #InsektenSamstag that had just landed 🐝

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦1d ago

"Waterlilies, or The Water Lily Pond (Nympheas)," Claude Monet, 1904.

Y'all know Monet by now.

Monet was a passionate gardener and also quite the perfectionist. He obsessively arranged plants around the pond in his garden in Giverny for maximum reflection, would clip dead blossoms off the water lilies, and even trimmed the pads to keep them an ideal shape. Rumor has it he paid to have the road by his house paved because he hated the dust that settled on his flowers.

From the late 1800s to about 1910, he worked on hundreds of water lily paintings, often having several canvases by his side that he would switch out as the light changed, and then return to them the next day. Sometimes he'd find he overworked a canvas, and slash at it in frustration with his palette knife.

He did about three hundred paintings of his garden in that period. This is one of four water lily paintings from 1904 that have survived; the rest were discarded and destroyed.

I once read a book where a character says to another, "You're as jittery as a water lily in a Money painting!" and that made me laugh....

Happy Flower Friday!

From the Denver Art Museum.

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Csöndműhely 1d ago

morning glow

#photo #photography #photographie #fotografie #fotovorschlag #fotografia #sunrise #backlight #flowers #flowerfriday #window

Bryan 🏳️‍🌈 Pixelfed 1d ago

#Bloomscrolling on #FlowerFriday

Bryan 🏳️‍🌈 Pixelfed 1d ago

#Bloomscrolling on #FlowerFriday

Spikyyn 1d ago

Silver cockscomb.

Google Pixel 7a
Edited in #Darktable
Jul 27, 2024

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Spikyyn 1d ago

Cone-shaped flower heads. Not sure what is this.

Google Pixel 7a | 3.4x Zoom / 85mm
Edited in #Darktable
Jun 21, 2024

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~meoralis~1d ago

My #JerusalemArtichokes for #FlowerFriday 🌻🌻🌻🌻

They're a lot taller than me, so I could only photograph them from below. I took this photo 2.5 weeks ago, when they fiiiinally bloomed. Now, with the first night frosts, they're already dead. I probably should dig out the tubers, though. Last year, I had two plants and only dug up one of them. Its tubers were so tiny and unusable that I couldn't be bothered to dig out the other. But this year, a whole forest of them popped up! They even grew on the neighbouring plot, oops. 😅

They're nice in a salad of shredded carrots and apples, though the taste is quite earthy. I've never tried them cooked. My rabbits loved them back in the day. I remember shipping a shoebox full of tubers to another member of an online rabbit forum I used to frequent, because my parents had so many #JerusalemArtichoke plants. 😁

#Topinambur #HelianthusTuberosus #sunroot #sunchoke #wildSunflower #flower #flowers #Blume #Blumen #Natur #nature #Garten #gardening #florespondence #bloomScrolling