Flowers

Flowers

Flowers, flowers, beautiful flowers. (And some other pretty plants thrown in with them, too.)

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Picture of a spiky fern, backlit and almost glowing at the edges. It has rows of parallel leaves, each with small spikes on them, with the body of the fern terminating in ever smaller leaves that eventually face their spikes towards one last outstretched point. Behind it are browns of fallen leaves, branches, and dirt - mostly not visible, as they're out of focus.

Picture of bright green leaves, lit from behind by the sun, as if glowing slightly. The leaves are somewhat pear shaped, coming to a point at the tip. A patch of pale blue sky is visible behind the leaves.

Layered Luminescent Leaves

Picture of the top half of a palm tree, against a flat blue sky. The palm tree forms a sort of ball shape at the top where all the leaves are, with the bare trunk of the tree going down to the edge of the frame. The sky ranges from pale blue at the bottom to a deeper blue at the top.

Zoomed in picture of the top of a slightly-open white gate. There's a big black and yellow sign saying "CAUTION. Keep Latch Shut". The gate is framed by dark green, unlit ivy leaves.

Keep Latch Shut

Closeup photo of some light blue berries (not sure what they are exactly). They're hanging out against a light off-grey background with a very out of focus branch behind them adding some light brown shades. Some of the berries have been eaten, but there's still maybe a hundred left in this little bunch.

A brilliant pink and white-ish magnolia flower, backlit by the sun and framed between two branches on either side. A couple other flowers from the same tree are visible in frame but out of focus.

Sunstruck Magnolia

A clump of tall, thick grass - olive green with red tips, and backlit by the sun as if on fire.

Not quite sure how to describe this, but I'll try. The photos of a handful of large daisy-like flowers, maybe African Daisies? They stick out from the rich greens of their stems, leaves, and budding buddies. There's two kinds of flowers here - both with the same circular shape with many long petals: One kind is a rather plain, light and almost shiny purple; the other comes as a gradient, barely purple at the center before shifting quickly towards red, orange, or yellow at the edges.

Picture of a cluster of wilting African Daisies, an upright flower with each petal making a beautiful gradient from purple to magenta, orange, or yellow. Some of the flowers are curled over on themselves, fully yellow and turning grey, and the others left look almost as if the color is draining from them. Below, a couple petals are on the dirt.

Closeup of a large green succulent with waterdrops all over it. The rosette fills the frame, with tiny, pointed leaves tightly layered around the center and larger leaves spreading toward the edges, growing wider as they get further away from the center.

Close-up (ish) of a water lily, kind of white and pink-ish, and barely reflected in the water between the gaps in the lily pads. There's a little fly sitting at the top of the flower.

Christ Church Water Lily (1 of 2)

Closeup-ish on a few white and pink-ish water lilies. They're partially obscured by the dark green and kinda brown lily pads that group up around them. One of them has more of a pink undertone, almost slightly peachy, while the others look strikingly paper-white.

Christ Church Water Lily (2 of 2)

A lonely thin tree branch extends towards the viewer, with little splotchy pink flowers extended upwards in small bouquets, as if to give you the gift of itself. The leaves are out of focus, a dark green against a backdrop of lighter watercolor-y green.

Sparkling Water with Iceplant

Stairway Daisies

Droopy Glowy Leaves

Purple African Daisy (1 of 2)

Purple African Daisy (2 of 2)

Budding Bay Leaf

Pano Iceplant Flowers

Skyline Silver Lupine

Skyline Blue-eyed Grass

Skyline Cow Parsnip

Succulent Spikes

Garden Magnolia

Teucrium Bee (3 of 3)

Port Snowdrop (1 of 2)

Port Snowdrop (2 of 2)

Port Meadow Cherry Plum

Cherry Plum Bee

Temescal Poppies 1

Temescal Poppies 2

Contra Costa Rose

Buena Vista Rose (1 of 2)

Buena Vista Rose (2 of 2)