Monday Mellow Yellows

These yellow and orange flowers 
shone through the snow and
added a spot of bright color to my
Brooklyn neighborhood.

[To see more Monday Mellow Yellows, go here.]

Think pink!

Last month, the Luxembourg Gardens
were a riot of pink—in the flower urns and . . .

everywhere!  It was a glorious sight.

[Linking back to Pink Saturday
at How Sweet the Sound.

bright spot on a gray day

We had a day of ugly, freezing rain and very high
winds last week.  As much as I appreciated
 comfort food and a glass of wine when I got home
 from work, a little floral therapy helped too.

Linking back to Monday Mellow Yellows
and to Macro Monday.]

complementary

Big yellow flowers in a bright blue
container—these cut blooms made me
very happy for more than a week.

[Linking back to Monday Mellow Yellows, Blue Monday,
and NatureFootstep: Catching the Light.]

The Weekend in Black and White

I believe these dangly little blooms are 
hellebores.  I just love their delicate beauty.

[To see more monochromes, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Tower of Flowers

Here's a recent arrangement made by
Remco van Vliet, the in-house floral designer
for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
If you'd like to know more about how he
creates his towering floral masterpieces, you
can read this article from the Wall Street Journal.

[I'm linking back to Shadow Shot Sunday
and also Today's Flowers.]

Thursday Challenge—"flowers"

You take your olfactory chances when you ride
the New York subways. You might find
yourself cheek by jowl with someone whose
hygiene habits are sketchy at best—or
you might get lucky like I did the other day
when the person next to me was toting these.

[To see more of the Thursday Photo Challenge, go here.]

Fragrant and festive

Do you have a favorite holiday-season
flower? I have to go with paperwhites.
These were on display in a very large
space (i.e. definitely not mine),
so the fragrance wouldn't overwhelm.

[To see more posts with a 'white' theme, visit Tina's Picstory.]

Mellow Yellow Monday

Here's the scenario I imagined: This guy

has been a VERY bad boy and he's carrying

these over-the-top posies home. Yes,

that's a subway pole buried among the

biggest bouquet I've ever seen (anywhere,

much less on the #3 express train!).

[See more Mellow Yellow here.]

photo Hunter — "purple"

If I have to choose, I think maybe the purple

flowers are my favorites. How about you?

[You can see more purple here at tnchick's PhotoHunt.]

Shadow Shot Sunday

I loved these shadows, but wasn't

able to find out what kind of flower

this is—anyone know?

[See more Shadow Shots here.]

Photo Hunter — "addiction"

Could have posted chocolate, or ice cream,

or cigarettes (kicked that one, fortunately).

I don't have a garden—or a green thumb—so I wait 

all winter for the flower people to return

 to the greenmarket so I can feed my addiction 

for fresh flowers.  (If you think of them as 

food for the soul, it hardly even seems like an indulgence.)

Well, the flower folks ARE back—last week, daffodils; 

this week, tulips; next week, lilacs!

[See more "addictions" here.]

Shadow Shot Sunday

Caught these at my mom's house, where

things tend to remain reassuringly the same.

These fabric blooms (and their shadows) have

been giving her pleasure for a lot of years.

[See more Shadow Shots here.]

abc wednesday - Z is for "zucchini blossoms"

These were for sale at the Mercato Centrale,

in Florence. Some people like them stuffed with 

rice or ricotta cheese. I prefer them on

their own, dipped in a light batter, fried, then 

sprinkled with a tiny bit of sugar.

How about you?

flowers

They had a very nice selection at the Union
Square greenmarket this week.  All the
others featured bad spelling ("Easter lillies,"
"Ester lily"), so I chose these for you. 
 Now I just need to use my two lips 
to wish you a Happy Easter!

last flowers of fall

Shot these on the North Fork of Long Island

on Saturday.  I'd like to dedicate this post

to my cousin John Ripley, a true hero, who

passed away this weekend.