Photo Blog Du Jour

Explosion in space and no one can hear you scream. In fact, you can't scream at all because all the air has been ripped from your lungs. Sorry for the downer post, was just thinking about the Alien franchise.

Blue rock a bye bindweed, on your knee tops, When the wind blows the cradle will blue rock bindweed

If you reach down and kiss this water lily, it turns into a frog. If in turn you kiss that frog, it'll turn in to a diamond ring.

Alas no dahlia, but a waterlily. Looking pretty. Wish I could grow waterlilies me, but I'd need a larger staff than I currently have.

Fifteen flagrantly flawless flamboyant fringe festival flowers found frequently fluttering if not frantically floating in fox-laden frozen fjords in Fall.

Owl staring down at me.

The very rarest of right opening birds of paradise. These are found on the left hand pages of books, and are rarely seen outside of botanical gardens.

The common left-opening bird of paradise. Frequently found on the right hand pages of books.

Cistern full of cistus. One rockrose picture is rarely sufficient, so two days in a row, your lucky day.

An invited guest wanders in to the picture. Bees are always invited, but they rarely take up my invitations, and they never R.S.Bee.P.

Harley Quinn flower, taking on the best of the best and the worst of the worst, leaving the median of the median and a couple of meeks to inherit the streets of Gotham city.

I'll take "flowers that make one believe in English gardens filled with faeries." for $200.

Pretty sure they got the name wrong. Or the name is right and the flower is wrong. Actually, the Huntington does have Gainsborough's Blue Boy hanging on it's walls, so maybe it's an homage to the painting. But the choice of rose is certainly a choice.

Amaryllis, dean of the school of plants and plantlife. She is in charge of hiring and firing, organizing the school curriculum, and budgeting the planning committee and planning the budget committee

Another thing I love are these stripey changey roses.

Purplish and pinkish roses, set of 4, minimum bid, $€£6,000. Your choice of current currency. Visit our world portals in New York, London, Frankfurt and ¥Shanghai for more information.

Photo number 226 on this the 19th day of March, year of our fjord 2026. More Peruvian Lilies. One could have less Peruvian Lilies, but what kind of sad solipsist world would that be?