A lush peony flower begins to fade. For its season is over regardless of what we would like. The flowers yellow center still open for bee's-ness, while the pink petals start to wilt. "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." — Pablo Neruda

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."
~#PabloNeruda

#Peony #WabiSabi #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers

A sprig of blossoms. Cherry or crab apple, it can be difficult to discern. Either way the soft pink flowers indicate that spring has sprung. Time for mother nature to shine and do what it does. Or as the poet below said... "I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." ~Pablo Neruda

"I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." ~#PabloNeruda

#CherryBlossom #CrabAppleBlossom #Spring #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #Poem

A macro image of a red and purple poppy flower, Its fully in bloom and the local bees are taking advantage of the smorgasbord. Posted on April 20th 2026. Internationally known as 420 day. I wish good thought to those who celebrate. Have a little Bob Marley "Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living." ~Bob Marley

"Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living."
~#BobMarley

Happy #420 to those who celebrate 🥬

#Poppy #Flowers and #Pollenators #Bee #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #macro #Nature

A pink dahlia emerges from the darkness. The tips of its pink petals glow white in the radiant light of the sun. "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?” ~Anon

"When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?” ~Anon

#Dahlia #Flower #DailyDahlia #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers

A pink gerbera daisy sits amongst its kin. It bloomed earlier than them all. Its pink and white peppermint stripped petals glisten with morning dew. It looks at the world and tells its family. It will be alright. It is nice out here. "I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?" ~Sylvia Plath

"I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?"
~#SylviaPlath

#Gerbera #Daisy #Macro
#FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers

Strikingly a pair of lotus blossoms rise into the frame. Yellow, white, pink, and gold. An everlasting cycle life and rebirth. "A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke" ~Vincent van Gogh

"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke"
~Vincent van Gogh

#LotusBlossom #Zen #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #FlowersOnBlueSky

A lavender blue water lily resting on a lily pad at the Huntington library and botanical gardens. The sun directly overhead there is no real shadows cast. The yellow orange center stretches out for sun and bees.

A lavender pink water lily resting on a lily pad at Suihō-en (The garden of water and fragrance), a public Japanese garden in Los Angeles, located in the Lake Balboa district in the central San Fernando Valley. The garden is also famously known as the inspiration, and occasional shooting location for Star Treks Headquarters. (Before The Burn) The sun directly overhead there is no real shadows cast. The yellow orange center stretches out for sun and bees. The picture resembles a painting.

A pale pink white water lily at the Costal Maine Botanical Garden bursts from the water. Surrounded by lily pads it rises inches over the surface to reach for the limited sun that reaches the tree covered pond.

A pale pink water lily sits in the Chinese gardens pond at the Huntington library and botanical gardens. A cloudy day but the flower still opens for the local bees to do their job. Its center glowing yellow and orange like a miniature sun to attract them.

A quartet of photos from West Coast to East Coast for #ThrowbackThursday The latest picture in the group is a year or so old. The other go back further.

#WaterLily #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #FlowersOnBlueSky #ArtYear

A lavender blue water lily resting on a lily pad at the Huntington library and botanical gardens. The sun directly overhead there is no real shadows cast. The yellow orange center stretches out for sun and bees.

A lavender pink water lily resting on a lily pad at Suihō-en (The garden of water and fragrance), a public Japanese garden in Los Angeles, located in the Lake Balboa district in the central San Fernando Valley. The garden is also famously known as the inspiration, and occasional shooting location for Star Treks Headquarters. (Before The Burn) The sun directly overhead there is no real shadows cast. The yellow orange center stretches out for sun and bees. The picture resembles a painting.

A pale pink white water lily at the Costal Maine Botanical Garden bursts from the water. Surrounded by lily pads it rises inches over the surface to reach for the limited sun that reaches the tree covered pond.

A pale pink water lily sits in the Chinese gardens pond at the Huntington library and botanical gardens. A cloudy day but the flower still opens for the local bees to do their job. Its center glowing yellow and orange like a miniature sun to attract them.

A quartet of photos from West Coast to East Coast for #ThrowbackThursday The latest picture in the group is a year or so old. The other go back further.

#WaterLily #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #FlowersOnBlueSky #ArtYear

A passion pink rose ready to go. The petals creeping open. The background is a muted gray with slight pink tones. The petals are crisp with the recent rains. Quote included by Maya Angelou "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."~Maya Angelou

#RoseWednesday #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #Pink #Rose #ArtYear

Black and white solarized photo of a water lily. Solarization is a process in which the print is exposed. Partially developed and then exposed again but without the negative. It gives off overtones of gray and highlights edges. Quote by Henry Rollins paired with the image. "Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
~Henry Rollins

#ClassicMono #WaterLily #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #FlowersOnBlueSky #Solarization

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection. Mine's a Mute Swan

#birds #photography #ECK @rspb.bsky.social #ukbirding #birdphotography

White and pink water lily resting on the lily pads surrounding it. It's petaloid reach from the center glowing in the suns touch. Longing for life. "I am not sorry for my soul That it must go unsatisfied, For it can live a thousand times, Eternity is deep and wide. I am not sorry for my soul, But oh, my body that must go Back to a little drift of dust Without the joy it longed to know." ~Sara Teasdale

"I am not sorry for my soul
That it must go unsatisfied,
For it can live a thousand times,
Eternity is deep and wide." ~Sara Teasdale

#ColorADay #PinkMon #WaterLily #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #Macro #FlowersOnBlueSky #Poem in alt

Thank you very much Robyn 💜

Macro shot of a yellow Dahlia flower. The orange petaloid surrounding a reddish center. "It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away" ~Henry Rollins

"It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away"
~Henry Rollins

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #ImageAndVerse #StunDay ##Dahlia #Flower #DailyDahlia #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling

Thank you so much. 🖤🤍

A black and white dahlia soaks in the sun like a worshiper in a temple. Basking in the passion of its deity. Warmed by a feeling it interprets in its own way. "Lucent light envelops our breathing planet What essential tasks can a poet still perform? to watch the gradual unfolding of natural revelations to touch the curved growth of green things in a blue world to feel the passage of time through space Falling light excites even minerals to a giddy reckoning of joy Universal Order flows outward in ceaseless waves of LIGHT"~Daniel Brick

"Universal Order
flows outward
in ceaseless waves of
LIGHT" ~Daniel Brick

#BNWMacro #Dahlia #Flower #DailyDahlia #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #CMBG #Poem in alt

white anemone with fuchsia accents around it’s center against a black background

That is stunningly gorgeous. Amazing composition. That dark background really makes it explode, 💜

A pair of white orchid flowers bloom together like twins growing up the same. Sharing a stem, sharing a root, sharing food, sharing experience. Siblings(Acrostic) "Sharing parents, Incredible friends, Blood related, Love oriented, If away from home, Nostalgic for them, Grown up together, Soul mates for ever."~Jyoti Sunit Chaudhary

Siblings(Acrostic)

"Sharing parents,
Incredible friends,
Blood related,
Love oriented,
If away from home,
Nostalgic for them,
Grown up together,
Soul mates for ever."~Jyoti Sunit Chaudhary

#Orchid #Flower #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #Poem

A yellow Zinnia flower fills the frame, so fully one can see the Trichomes (tiny hair-like outgrowth structures on the edges of petals) The sun illuminates the flower from a steep morning angle. Glowing brightly against the blue black background Poem Included "Love and affection is there Means everything is there. Death admits his defeat Before love and affection." ~Gajanan Mishra

"Love and affection is there
Means everything is there.

Death admits his defeat
Before love and affection."
~Gajanan Mishra

#Zinnia #Flowers #CMBG
#ColorADay #YellowThus #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling

Very welcome 😁

Those go well together. 💜 Beautiful contact in the image. 🖤🤍

Two yellow coneflowers in the foreground, a cluster of red flowers in the background

Feed on colors for a happy Thursday 💛❤️💚
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#thelittlethings
#bloomscrolling #flowers
#EastCoastKin #ECK

This reminds me of the duality of my brain. When I'm walking and a bike is on the sidewalk I don't like it. But when I'm on a bike and I'm the road with cars, I want to be on the sidewalk. 🤣🧠🚲🚳🤷‍♀️

A curved green stalk with purple bluebell flowers hanging down. Around it are other bluebells, intentionally out of focus, and the light is peachy from the sun setting behind.

Out at the #bluebells nearby for sunset - another benefit of WFH and late sunsets, can pop out after work!

#Berkhamsted #Spring

A soft pink fancy rose prepares fort its big debut. One can see inside at the tightly wrapped mass of petals. The anticipation growing in the heart like true love ready to explode in response to the right conditions. "Loving Is not enough, Giving Love's Magic touch, To another, Is what Really counts."~Sandra Feldman

"Loving
Is not enough,
Giving
Love's
Magic touch,
To another,
Is what
Really counts."~Sandra Feldman

#Pink #Rose #RoseWednesday #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #Pome #TrueLove

A blueish lavender water lily pokes out of the water and seems to rest on a floating leaf. Its yellow center glows in the sun and its yellow petaloid are tipped with lavender points. "Pay attention to my words That are there within you. I am telling about you, And you are entitled, I know. How long you are there, and also I want to know about your livelihood And you are keeping aside yourself And that is not the truth. No right and no wrong, It is all the same here With the hearing and In detachment. It is your sense of purity, You may take it as real and unreal as well."~Gajanan Mishra

"It is your sense of purity,
You may take it as real and unreal as well." ~Gajanan Mishra

#ColorADay #BlueTues ish #WaterLily #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #FlowersOnBlueSky #TheHuntington #Poem in Alt

Black and white shot of a lotus blossom in full bloom. The next step in the lifecycle will be the engorgement of the seed pods. Thus, the reincarnation cycle repeats. Heavenly dancing Exquisite movement and form - Art’s pure elegance. ~Paul Holmes

"Heavenly dancing
Exquisite movement and form -
Art’s pure elegance."~Paul Holmes

#LotusBlossom #ClassicMono #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #FlowersOnBlueSky

A pair of white orchids. Damp from the rain with droplets hanging off their petals. Yellow buds hovering over them waiting for their time to shine. Deep in the valley, a beauty hides": Serene, peerless, incomparably sweet. In the still shade of the bamboo thicket It seems to sigh softly for a lover." Taigu Ryokan

"Deep in the valley, a beauty hides:
Serene, peerless, incomparably sweet.
In the still shade of the bamboo thicket
It seems to sigh softly for a lover."
~Taigu Ryokan

#Orchid #Flower #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #Poem