Category Archives: Flowers

Notes from Inside a Black Hole

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Touch2Touch

Serious illness, like a black hole, draws everything into itself. Energy, creativity, enthusiasm, all the factors essential to blogging, are subsumed and nothing is left outside. Which explains where I’ve been for so long. Not my illness, but the Hub’s. Now … Continue reading →

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Winter Closet

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Thanksgiving arrived along with the first winter storm of the season here in the Northeast United States. Biting cold, snow, wind — please, Mother Nature, I’m not ready yet! The older I get, the less ready I am for the … Continue reading →

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Fear Not!

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Yesterday the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico netted a cool $44.4 million at auction for one of their masterpieces, O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed. That more than doubled the amount ever paid for a work by a female artist, and … Continue reading →

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A New Strain: “Last Gasp” Morning Glories!

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Touch2Touch

When my gardening neighbor planted the vines on the other side of the trellis shared by our patios, I was delighted. The quickly climbing green leaves made no distinction between thine and mine. They clambered through the lattice to my side as … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: REGAL ROSE

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Touch2Touch

I don’t think I’d ever seen a purple rose before this bouquet arrived from the florist one day. Not only was the color regal — “born to the purple” describes a status as well as a hue — but the very set … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HIBISCUS, BABY!

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Touch2Touch

And now for something COMPLETELY different — La Hibiscus! Talk about in-your-face!  No shrinking violet she. Her philosophy is, If you’ve got it, flaunt it! A hot-blooded lady from the tropics, our hibiscus is right out there. In her gorgeous color, … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY!

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Not only because I think he resembles an impudent rascally adorable little boy — but because that’s actually his name! I can hear you thinking, What is she talking about? That’s a pansy! Well, yes and no. Johnny Jump-ups are … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: YOU CAN CALL HER PEONY

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Two young things were the subjects of the first two flower portraits. So it’s exciting to turn to a more assured, mature beauty for our third. She is known formally as Paeonia Suffruticosa, but Peony is the name we are likely to … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: COLUMBINE

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Here she is, in all her coltish, awkward, long-legged innocence and beauty, young Aquilegia Chrysanthra, better known to us as COLUMBINE: What she calls to mind for me are those enchanting creatures found in the title of Marcel Proust’s second volume, A … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: Mlle. POPPY

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Summertime, the season of flowers! So why not portraits of flowers? For me, flowers have personalities, individuality, presence. And when it comes to taking photographs, they have as much or more of those qualities as humans. They have other good qualities as well … Continue reading →

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