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Remember you can click on each image below for a larger view. Here’s a beautiful red hibiscus flower to start with.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Red hibiscus flower
A white hibiscus flower is just as pretty, believe it or not. It even has a little pinkish red on it.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: white hibiscus flower
There’s also the beautiful ornamental pear blossoms of San Diego’s Balboa Park. They don’t smell good but they sure are pretty!
Pear blossoms at San Diego’s Balboa Park
Now, if you’re looking for red and white on a single picture, take a peek at my budding strawberries. Amid the green and red leaves, you can find a few white strawberry blossoms.
Red strawberry leaves and white strawberry blossoms
Spring is almost here but Christmas wasn’t that long ago and ’tis the ultimate season for red and white!
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Today I’m taking part in Macro Monday at Lisa’s Chaos. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love taking photos of flowers and plants, but I’m terrible at identifying what they are. I recently featured some beautiful pink and fuzzy flowers but I had no idea what they were at first. When I posted the photo on my Facebook page, someone kindly told me the flowers belonged to the New Zealand Christmas Tree. After googling that tree, I was pretty convinced and so I wrote my post around this specific tree.
Now, here’s the catch. I visited the San Diego Botanic Garden this weekend and I saw fuzzy flowers that looked just like the pink ones but they were white. So I looked at the tree label and it said… White powder puff – Calliandra Haematocephala. Ha!
Powder puff tree – calliandra haematocephala
The powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala – can feature fuzzy flowers that are either pink or white depending on its variety. The powder puff shaped flowers are beautiful in either color, so for this Macro Monday post, I’m featuring both colors for your enjoyment.
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Macro Monday: pink powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala
The berries you see on the photo are not edible. They actually are the flower buds before they bloom. Aren’t these blooms pretty?
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Today I’m taking part in Macro Monday at Lisa’s Chaos. This is my first time and I hope to participate every week if I have the photos to contribute.
For this macro theme, I’m featuring a couple of photos I took this weekend at the San Diego Zoo. The weather was mostly cloudy but it still made for some decent lighting to capture these close-up shots.
As always, you can click on each image to view it in a larger format. Enjoy!
Macro Monday: pink fuzzy flowers and dark red berries of the Calliandra HaematocephalaMacro Monday: pink fuzzy flowers and dark red berries of the Calliandra Haematocephala
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It took me a little time to figure out what type of photos I could take to best represent this theme. At first, I thought photographing a sunrise or a sunset in progression would be perfect. Unfortunately we haven’t had the best weather recently, so this opportunity has not presented itself in time.
So I’m offering you my second pick for this ongoing theme: bees, hard at work on a variety of flowers. What I find most amazing about bees is how relentless they are at doing their job, even when you stand right next to them for a photo opportunity. Their work is ongoing and uninterrupted and I love watching them and capturing them on camera.
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I took this photo at Balboa Park in San Diego earlier this week. These are pear blossoms from ornamental pear trees. The bees were super busy collecting nectar from the thousands of flowers available to them.
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bees on the pear blossoms at San Diego Balboa Park
This next photo is also from Balboa Park. Apparently the bees weren’t just busy with the pear blossoms. They were also hard at work on these beautiful aloe flowers. You could see the ongoing flow of bees all over these flowers.
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bees on aloe flowers at Balboa Park in San Diego
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bees on cactus flowers at the San Diego Botanic Garden
This next photo is from Idyllwild, California. This bee’s ongoing nectar collection on this wild rose made for a great photo opportunity.
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bee on a wild rose in Idyllwild
My last photo is not of a bee but a tiger swallowtail butterfly. Just like bees, butterflies go from one flower to the next to collect nectar. This is an ongoing job and gives me an opportunity to chase them around to try to get a good shot. This one ended up on my 2013 photo calendar.
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A few days ago, I shared with you some photos of flowers I took recently. Today I’d like to share a few more photos I took that day, more specifically the ones with the busy bees on the yellow cactus flowers.
Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view. This is the photo I shared the other day.
Bee on yellow cactus flowers
I love how the sunlight reflects on the bee’s wings to show its intricate design on the photo below.
Bee collecting nectar on yellow cactus flowers
I wonder how much nectar the bees can collect from these tiny flowers, which are just the size of a bee. At least the bees were busy doing their job and I didn’t seem to disturb them with my camera.
Bee on cactus flowers
I got lucky for this last shot and managed to get two bees in the frame, a different angle for each. Busy bees!
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