Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files.
The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life. The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent. Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
Like River I usually run with a theme. Apparently there are two types of people; big picture people and details people.
The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life. The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent. Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
Like River I usually run with a theme. Apparently there are two types of people; big picture people and details people.
I fall into the details category most of the time. I am fascinated by detail and often miss the big picture while I revel in it. My ever loving family describes it as 'small things, for small minds'.
So this week I am showing some of the details in our garden which have been fascinating and delighting me.
The camellias in particular have been a joy. The blooms are big and blowsy, and I love the details in their centres...
There are lots of wall flowers, and they make a nice splash of colour, but I think the detail of the individual blooms is even more impressive.
"big and blowsy"
ReplyDeleteI love that descriptor. That's what my grandmother said of hussies who did not have their shirtwaists well tucked in.
Joanne Noragon: My mother used the big and blowsy phrase too. In much the same way as your grandmother.
Deletesmall things for small minds ~ aren't families just wonderful. That is something my mother would have retorted with too to put me in my place. In my opinion the world needs both kind of people. Any good workplace has both who quite happily know each other's strengths and celebrate that difference. But back to your pictures ~ I can see why you have been drawn into the detail this week. Have you ever thought of dabbling in macro photography EC. I reckon you would really love it. Perhaps you follow someone who blogs about macro ~ Aimee over in Perth. Let me find her blog and I will post it.
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Deletecarolincairns: Familes can indeed be very special. My family was pretty good on the 'tough love' front.
DeleteI am toying with the idea of a new camera - and macro photography is one of the reasons. Thank you for the link - I will head over shortly.
There are some good photos of blooms, but I love the frosty violet leaves.
ReplyDeleteAndrew: I have taken quite a lot of frosty photos this season. Delicate, hard edged, fragile beauty.
DeleteI also smiled at the "big and blowsy" line, and I enjoyed every single bloom more than once. Your flowers are so different! And the frosty leaves reminded me once again that we don't live on the same hemisphere of our beautiful planet. :-)
ReplyDeleteDJan: Isn't it wonderful that we can share hemispheres. And weather. And experience. And laughter...
DeleteOh I so love getting lost in the details, though sometimes it can be quite.... harmful? Sometimes delicious and rich, other times a trap of the mind. Definitely not necessarily for small minds though, seems to me appreciating the small things comes from understanding and appreciating how all the small things are connected and make up the big things :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm very tactile and those pictures make me want to reach out and touch and squish flowers sooooo bad! Eee! That is why I have fuzzy coleus and cockscomb in my planters, gotta have me some "touchy feelies!" *sneaks out to balcony planters*
HBF: The little things are HUGE in my world. For which I feel no shame. And it is usually the little things that I have some power to change.
DeleteI am so with you about the urge to stroke, pat, squeeze plants. I do it too.
There are, these days, many more such touchy-feely areas in Botanic Gardens.The aim was to give blind people a way to appreciate them.And what little kid doesn't love popping Fuchsia buds!Ooh, and dandelion clocks!
Deletedinahmow: When our Botanic Gardens went the touchy feely route my father was responsible for ferrying some of the blind 'consultants' to and from the gardens. He did a lot of work for the Royal Blind Society, and had a lot of fun with it too.
DeleteAnd I still pop fuschia buds, honesty and blow dandelion clocks.
You certainly captured the colours, EC. Camellias are such beautiful flowers...simple, pure and beautiful. I always think of "The Lady of the Camellias" and "La Traviata" every time I see them.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week ahead...pats and cuddles to the two Js. :)
Lee: I do like camellias - and these are trees. They are all over the roof line, and a blaze of colour at the moment. Colour and birds...
DeleteA great week to you, to Remy and to Sharma.
Gorgeous! I love the little details too. Besides, it's all the little details that make up the big picture.
ReplyDeleteRiver Fairchild: They tell me that the little things make up the whole - but I am often to busy looking at the little things to take the big picture in.
DeleteI smile at big and blowsy - such a lovely term, and quite a good description for the camellias. The colours are just so vibrant. Love your photos.
ReplyDeleteCountryMum: This winter we have had quite a lot of grey days - which is unusual here. The colours of the flowers that are blooming just POP. And make me smile.
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ReplyDeleteSteve Finnell: My blog is not the place to share your religious thoughts.
DeleteBrilliant flowers EC, and I love the number 7, so close.
ReplyDeleteBob Bushell: Thank you. It is raining here this morning and the colours are just glowing...
DeleteI've never seen a wall flower before, isn't that odd? They are very pretty
ReplyDeletekylie: Wallflowers are an 'old-fashioned' plant. I picked up mine from markets, and don't remember seeing them in nurseries. I have a gorgeous orangey one too - which is not yet in bloom.
DeleteSteve has been making his way around. meh
ReplyDeleteWhat is the second to last flower? It is so pretty!
Birdie: Steve describes himself as a keyboard evangalist - and I wish he would wait for an invitation. Sigh.
DeleteIf you mean the blue/purple flower, it is a wallflower. Hardy and beautiful. The ones above it are all camellias.
Small things for small minds? Really....Love the camellias especially. I don't think we can grow them here though in California I've seen them. Love the detail. How do camellias smell? I remember my sister-in-law said her favorite flower to smell is a ginger blossom (she grew up in tropical Taiwan)
ReplyDeleteSue in Italia/In the Land of Cancer: None of my camellias have a scent, though some of the newer ones do. I do love my scented plants, but would probably drown in it if the avenue of camellias outside the front of our house were scented.
DeleteLove the frosty leaves...not anxious for cold weather but do find the picture refreshing!
ReplyDeleteBookie: They looked as if they had been dusted with icing sugar. I do love winter.
DeleteI love wallflowers too - superb old-fashioned flowers with beautiful scents. The centres of camellias are wonderful, aren't they? I would like to have a macro lens, too. Maybe one day soon...
ReplyDeleteThe crispy leaves are very good. Thank you for the gorgeous Sunday shots, EC.
Alexia: I suspect a macro lens would get a workout if I had one. A big workout. Some day...
DeleteI like rather a lot of the old fashioned flowers. They are often scented and beautiful. I don't follow fashion in the garden any better than I do anywhere else.
I love them all. I love seeing pictures of other people's gardens. I can never enjoy my own because all I see is weeds or something else to work on. I have issues and probably need to be medicated.
ReplyDeleteSonya Ann: We share those issues. It is only by taking my camera and focussing on the small beauties that I can be distracted from what needs to be done, what should be done, what hasn't been done...
DeleteGoodness I can't even pick one favorite they are all so impressive and lovely. I must say the velvet leaves are such a gift of nature, so much to cherish and adore growing right in your garden!
ReplyDeleteKaren S.: My garden is an obsession. I am pleased to hear that the frosted leaves pleased others as well though.
DeleteI love your camellias, they look so soft, like silk . Wallflowers are another favourite, I keep meaning to plant some and always forget to include them when I'm buying plants.
ReplyDeleteRiver: There are hanging camellias and scented ones available now. I lust after them, but have nowhere (yet) to put them. Wallflowers are gorgeous aren't they? And spread really well too.
DeleteYour camellias are so pretty. It's hard to imagine that during your winter season you still have a lovely garden to admire ... that's awesome.
ReplyDeleteWhisper Mist: Our winters are cool by Australian standards, but very mild on a global scale. And believe me, parts of the garden are very far from lovely.
DeleteHah! I am a detail person also, while my husband is a big-picture person. We need both in this world; each has its strengths and vulnerabilities. I love your frosty violet leaves and I am intrigued to hear you may delve further into macro photography ... what a wonderful way to pursue detail.
ReplyDeletejenny_o: I can manage the big picture caper if I have to, but it doesn't come easily.
DeleteI have been thinking for a while that photography is something I could/should explore further. And macros certainly float my boat. It would take more than my current point and shoot camera though I think.
I do like camelias... such a delicate looking flower. I don't yet have any in my garden and I really should fix that. Lovely photos - the wall flowers are very beautiful too.
ReplyDeleteWhat am I thinking? I have a huge pink camelia! I confused it for gardenia, of which I sadly have none. Pity as they have a wonderful fragrance.
DeleteCraig: My green thumb is decidedly black where gardenias are concerned. I love them, but have killed too many. I won't buy them anymore. Or maidenhair ferns.
DeleteHI Sue I cannot get over your have frost in your part of the world and I love the icing dusted edged leaves of that plant. The flowers are all beautiful and Yes I think you should do more macro work. Itcan be done with a small camera aslong as you have a steady hand and then it should be good enouogh to crop even further into the shot. Those wallflowers re everlasting and beautifully scented. This is nearly the time of the year to plant biennual wallflower and I am going to buy some at the market as I love both the scent and beautiful variety of colours they will have next year. Have a good week ahead.
ReplyDeleteMargaret Adamson: We get some hard frosts here. I really love the look of a good hard frost, and the crunch under foot. The air smells good too. Sadly my hands are NOT steady, but I will still investigate macros some day.
DeleteHow lovely these photos are. :)
ReplyDeleteSnoskred: Thank you.
DeleteI like detail too.
ReplyDeleteYour camellias are lovely, they are always pretty when they bloom in the winter and later..
whiteangel: Ours are blooming earlier than usual. Or most of them. There is a delicate pink one, whose flowers look like water lilies which isn't out yet. Tight buds only.
DeleteI love the frosty look too. Hurrah for the details! :)
ReplyDeletemail4rosey: The big picture matters too - I just can't see it.
DeleteI can see both, but the details make it a better journey. :)
DeleteLove the description "big and blowsy". I guess I am not alone in that.
ReplyDeleteGranny Annie: Big and blowsy is a label I could wear - but I am not as beautiful as the camellias.
DeleteI love your attention to details. The small things are sometimes lost or over looked as people hurry about, but you have captured these beautifully. Keep looking for the details.
ReplyDeleteMason Canyon: Thank you. The small things are huge in my world.
DeleteThose are beautiful details.
ReplyDeleteI'm somewhere in the middle, although definitely more towards the big picture. My wife is like you - she sees the little things, and it's a delight.
Alex J. Cavanaugh: How nice that you and your wife have both areas covered.
DeleteBeautiful! Is the 2nd from the bottom some type of phlox?
ReplyDeleteSandra Cox: It is a wallflower. Old fashioned, hardy, scented and it spreads readily. And comes in other colours as well. The bees love it too.
DeleteYou even listed them as wallflowers and it didn't click.
DeleteThere's always a fragile beauty attached to plants crystallised by frost.
ReplyDeleteYour camellias are beautiful. Such a delight in the depths of winter.
And, there's nothing shy or introverted about the bright and cheery wallflowers :)
Vicki: Frost can tranform a landscape in an elegant, beautiful, unexpected way can't it? And I do enjoy camellias. And wallflowers. A lot.
DeleteI have a point and shoot now that someone didn't want anymore and sent to me when my other camera broke. It has a close up button and is very good actually at capturing detail. I too love detail and often peer at things close up for a long time. But my eyes for close up are not what they used to be. The camera "sees" better.
ReplyDeleteStrayer: My camera (also a point and shoot) sees better than I do as well. Much better. It is not uncommon that I don't see something until I have the photo blown up on screen.
DeleteI'm the big-picture guy. But I can still appreciate the beauty of those photos :)
ReplyDeleteMichael G D'Agostino: Best of both worlds. I often can't see the big picture. And often don't like what I can see of it.
DeleteBig and blowsy perfectly describes those lovely blossoms :)
ReplyDeletemshatch: It does capture them - in an unkind sort of way. Flamboyant?
DeleteGorgeous details......I actually am neither....I move between the big picture then the details and back again....if I have to pick it would also be details....no small minds either.
ReplyDeleteDonna@LivingFromHappiness: How fortunate to be able to be both, and move between them as circumstances and need dictate. I wonder how common that is?
DeleteThank you for all these gorgeous details! I suspect your garden is one that I would love to see!
ReplyDeleteSusan F.: Parts of the garden perhaps. Part of the time. Like every garden it is always a work in progress and there is always more work to do...
DeleteBeautiful! I love getting caught up in the details too. When you stop and look at something and notice all of its parts- it becomes even more stunning and amazing. The frosty violet leaves are so cool. :)
ReplyDelete~Jess
DMS ~ Jess: Caught up in the detail is right. As is stunning and amazing. There is so much to see when I open my eyes, heart, mind...
DeleteI'm trying to become a detail person, but mostly I'm spacey. Love the pictures and I like what you say about the individual bloom being as beautiful as the whole array of flowers. That's poetic.
ReplyDeleteMyrna R.: Spacey? Are you sure? Your poems capture, preserve and illuminate detail as well as concept.
DeleteI have a Camellia bush, and love the flowers, they're pink as well, and I used to have tons of those exact wall flowers in my old garden! They spread like wildfire as I recall, but look great.
ReplyDeleteAll Consuming: The wallflowers do have plans for world domination. There is a bed at the bottom of the garden which they have largely taken over. They are beautiful enough to get away with it. Bad behaviour by beauties is condoned in the garden as well.
DeleteFlowers and plants are amazing aren't they? I've been taking some macro shots outside and the details in the flowers are just incredible. Mini works of art. Great photos!
ReplyDeleteLL Cool Joe: I do love (and am in awe at) your photography. Are you going to share your macros?
DeleteFlowers in winter always cheery.
ReplyDeleteMerle..........
Merlesworld: Are you having a weird weather winter? We have had more grey days than usual, and some cold ones, but the garden has decided that it is spring. Or some of the garden has decided that.
DeleteI agree about the individual blooms, especially the next to last one in this series.
ReplyDeleteKeep a smile, Sue.
Rawknrobyn: I am smiling. Sometimes through gritted teeth, but I am smiling. And laughter is never far away either.
DeleteFlowers and frost -- what a joy! Few things, I think, are more fun than zooming in on blooms with a camera, especially in winter. These are lovely.
ReplyDeletePaper Chipmunk (aka Ellen): Tomorrow morning is forecast to be a minus 5 or 6, so I will be out early indulging the other winter camera fun. Bubbles.
DeleteI love detail! Macro photography is my fave. Great photos!
ReplyDeleteKaren: You take amazing macros. All your photos are amazing.
DeleteGorgeous shots of the flowers!
ReplyDeleteladyfi: Thank you.
DeleteOMG, you do pay attention to detail, EC. Love these photos. Felt I could touch them, so soft did some appear. Especially loved the frosty violets. So pretty like decorative flowers on a fancy cake.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you so much for signing up for WEP. Perhaps we have some supendous photos to look forward to?
Denise :-)
Denise Covey: I am glad you enjoyed my detail. I thought of icing too.
DeleteWEP is right out of my comfort zone, but I have some ideas mulling round in the porridge in my head.
You have a beautiful garden, and I think you enjoy it a lot. Lovely photos.
ReplyDeleteHigs
orvokki: The garden is one of my obsessions. Blood, sweat, tears and money go into it - and yes, I do love it. And sometimes enjoy it. Always work that needs doing though...
DeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteIf you'd like, if you click on my name here, it will take you to my one and only blog I have now.
Lon Anderson: Thank you.
DeleteMy goodness, these are spectacular!
ReplyDeleteDeniseinVA: Thank you too.
DeleteI love these details. I haven't been able to properly garden in years, but I remember it is the details that brought me so much joy. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteRaquel Somatra: Details are delightful is one of my mantras. Hopefully some day you will have the time, the energy and the space to garden again. Not for a while though - and I will happily share until you can.
DeleteI'm a detail person, too. I think that's the best way to be! Lovely photos - still so hard to imagine it's cold there right now, when we are so hot.
ReplyDeleteLovely camellias, too. They make me think of Christmas!
Lynn: I know that our seasons are opposite. I am comfortable with it. But camellias for Christmas rocked me on my heels. Totally alien.
DeleteSo beautiful! I love camellias. Yours are stunning. I don't think I've ever seen a wallflower. They're pretty, too. Hope all is well with you. I'm beginning to miss chatting with everyone more often. But must write.
ReplyDeleteCarol Kilgore: I miss you too - but love your writing. Get back to it.
DeleteWow. I love pink flowers!!! I have a bunch of empty pots that need plants/flowers in them and I'm just at a loss. I'm assuming now isn't the time to plant, since fall is coming...
ReplyDeleteStephanie Faris: Some things will thrive if planted at the end of summer. Your local nursery would know, and should be able to recommend things which thrive in your climate. Do you have particularly hard winters?
DeleteI'm delighted these flowers are growing in your garden. They look fantastic with all their vibrant colors, perfect for our busy little cross pollinating friends.
ReplyDeleteSpacerguy: The birds revel in the camellias. The parrots chew them, and the wattle birds dive in to extract nectar. The bees LOVE the wallflowers and they are always covered in bees. Which is lovely.
DeleteLove your garden, excellent pictures! I regularly take pictures of the blooms in my garden, but never the quality of these.
ReplyDeleteThanks for signing up for the WEP - Spectacular Settings is going to be an exciting challenge.
Yolanda Renee: I am way out of my comfort zone with the WEP, but have decided to hold my nose and jump in. I am really, really looking forward to seeing what other people do with it.
DeleteThe garden is one of my obsessions and I take a lot of photos. I do love digital cameras and being able to junk most of them...
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with the WEP. I felt the same way, but I'm so glad I stuck it out, it's one of the best leaps I've ever made.
DeleteMy garden is too - I love, love hanging out there!
Yolanda Renee: Thank you. Still anxious - but wearing my big girl panties.
DeleteI like those frosty violets:)
ReplyDeleteHappy Monday, Elephant's Child.
Sandra Cox: I nearly took more photos of them this morning - but photographed other frost spangled leaves instead. A happy Monday to you too - we are now approaching Tuesday lunchtime...
DeleteCamellias are such a beautiful feminine flower. We've got them in this area but I've never had any. Right now everything is suffering from lack of water.
ReplyDeleteSandra Cox: We have been without water often and often. Scary. I hope you get some healing/rejuvenating rain. Soon.
DeleteGorgeous. I love closeup shots of flowers. Guess that makes me a details person too!
ReplyDeleteDawn@Lighten Up!: There seem to be a lot of us about.
DeleteI hope to one day have a garden. Seeing the beautiful photos of yours is fulfilling a vicarious sorta thing.
ReplyDeleteMadilyn Quinn: As a child I really couldn't understand why my mother spent so much time and effort in the garden. And then the addiction took hold...
DeleteVicarious is cheaper and easier on the muscles too.
I love your details. They show the true beauty of these flowers! Small pictures for BIG minds, actually!!!
ReplyDeleteCarola Bartz: Thank you. The details fill me with wonder, and awe.
DeleteThe violet leaves are lovely, EC, as of course are all those stunning camellias. You've reminded me now that I have always wanted wallflowers. They always featured in garden descriptions of the English books I loved as a child. Must.get.some...
ReplyDeleteCarol: I do love wallflowers. They are set and forget plants too, and spread readily. A Tesselaar catalogue arrived today featuring some colours I don't have. Will I weaken? Probably.
DeleteYour family sounds rather small-minded. Who was it that said life is in the details? These are beautiful details for sure.
ReplyDeleteRiot Kitty: Big picture people one and all. And convinced of their superiority. I am quite happy with the detail.
DeleteBeautiful as the camellias are, I just love the frosty petals picture. Ice can be so beautiful over plantlife. Plants have adapted in gorgeous ways.
ReplyDeleteJohn Wiswell: I have been taking a LOT of photos of frost, and frost effects. Elegant, fragile, ephemeral - and beautiful.
DeleteI always forget that you lot are enjoying winter while us Virgins, er I mean Virginians are sweltering in the muggy Summer :)
ReplyDeleteIt's nearly to hot to even put some shrimp on the Barbie (although I only ever get 2 or 3 on that silly doll anyway...)
Mark Koopmans: I loathe the sweaty season, and don't envy you at all.
DeleteInterestingly while we do love our barbies, we don't put shrimps on them. They are prawns here.
Trailer Trash Barbie always amused me, and I am pretty certain she would take your shrimps and run with them.
Oh your flower photos beautiful and are a joy to see; I must look up wall flower, funny I asked for prawns in Florida and they looked at me like I was crazy and that was at a fish market. Ha.
ReplyDeleteLinda Starr: Sometimes it is difficult to remember that we supposedly speak the same language isn't it.
DeleteWallflowers are lovely. Scented. Hardy. Prolific. I hope you can find some.
You have EYES for beautiful details. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteGunn: Welcome and thank you.
DeleteIsn't it great that we get blossoms like that in the middle of winter. Beautiful images EC and I especially love the frosty leaves, the picture made me shiver.
ReplyDeleteKim: As I type we are in the middle of another frosty morning. With fog. Beautiful. And the King Parrots and the Crimson Rosellas are squabbling over pieces of apple. Also beautiful.
DeleteI love detail people like you and your photos. Hug B
ReplyDeleteButtons Thoughts: Thank you for taking time out from your very busy life to drop in. Hugs returned.
DeleteI've heard it said that God is in the details and I think I believe that:)
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for that word "blowsy". Oh how I love that:)
A perfectly brilliant word! (I love meeting new words:))
I enjoyed the frost and your un-wilted petals. Nice to see them cool:)
-Jennifer
Jennifer Richardson: I am a lover of words too. Big and small.
DeleteThe frost is delightful - though the daffodils bow down under it until the sun is high.
Frosted leaves, so lovely!
ReplyDelete"Blowsy"...that's what we called Janis Joplin.
How wonderful it is that you are surrounded by such beauty, and how even more wonderful that you do not become immune to it.
ReplyDeletetotallycaroline: Not immune. Never immune. So very grateful.
DeleteJust stopped by to say hey and gave a great evening.....or morning;)
ReplyDeleteSandra Cox: Thank you. It was late morning here when you visited, and is now coming up for four in the afternoon. I hope you are having a wonderful day.
DeleteHey Sue,
ReplyDeleteI immersed myself in your blooming lovely photos. That frosty leaf look is especially beautiful.
Have a lovely weekend, my kind friend.
Gary
klahanie: I do love your way with words - and am pleased you enjoyed my frosty violets.
DeleteA wonderful weekend to you too. And an equally wonderful week to follow.
They all look lovely. Especially the pink one. :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your weekend!
Lux G.: Thank you. There is a softer pink camellia which looks like a water lily yet to come out. I am looking forward to it.
DeleteOnly people who truly SEE and appreciate the world around them take time to notice the beauty in the details. That's not indicative of a small mind... it's indicative of a big heart. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend!
Susan: Sometime I cannot see the world for the detail which engrosses me. Which is probably a lifesaver. The big picture frequently scares/horrifies me.
DeleteEnjoyed. After being in the cool mountains...I wouldn't mind a frosty morning.
ReplyDeleteAuthor R. Mac Wheeler. I am loving our frosts. Another good one this morning.
DeleteLovely photos...I look forward to more.
ReplyDeletee: Welcome and thank you. There will be more. This is often a photo heavy blog.
DeleteThanks for your visit to my blog. I hope you will return. As for your comment, you are right that grief never ends and I have had a lot of it recently. The piece was from a class called Writing Your Grief.
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