NSFW: This post contains macro photography of flowers
On a recent trip to Boise I was surprised by what a nice little city it is, and one of the nicest things about it was the beautiful rose garden near downtown. Though it was late October there were still thousands of rose blooms, and when Bleue and I wandered in near sunset there was just enough light left to capture some of them. I didn't make note of their names at the time, so I'll have to let the images speak for themselves.
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I have to start planting roses.
You've got an incredible eye. I would have found it impossible to leave.
Mesmerizing post.
I'm so happy to have you, with your wonderful eye for photography. My eyes couldn't get enough, it was really a wonderful experience. Sigh, happy memory.
And, nice roses.. heehee
Gorgeous, like fantastically gorgeous roses.
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Great photos my friend.
Rated!!!!!
Congrats Nanatahay, may you both be happy and healthy. Beautiful flowers.
I hope you don't find that shorthand.
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but that's okay, I'll say it again ...
gorgeous photos; fragrant post.
C, it was a beautiful trip for a fact. Aside from a surplus of Republicans, Boise is a great little city.
The yellow ones were my favorite for scent too, Doris. Next time we go there we need to take a picnic lunch and eat cambozola and hummus and smoked oysters in the gazebo.
M. C., the wind was blowing and it was getting dark so I had a hard time keeping the blossoms in frame, but aside from that I'm pleased with the results.
Candace, "Boise roses" does have a certain ring to it. Who'd have thunk one of the best rose gardens in the Northwest was in Idaho?
I'm glad you liked these, John. I'm sorry about that snow y'all had to deal with. :(
Rita, you ain't just whistlin' Dixie...
Julie; me too!
Trig, I was surprised when she first began to hover but I got over it. Many powers, many powers...
I've seen some nice rose gardens, Myriad, but this one took the cake.
STUNNING PICS!!!
Stacey; shorthand nice. ;-)
I'm glad you enjoyed the pics, Marissa. Thank you for visiting my blog.
Candace, the scent on that one was amazing. I really do wish I'd paid more attention to the names.
Tink, my ability to dance on glass floors is, unfortunately, contingent on doing lots of ketamine. :(
Thank you much, Fernsy. It seemed the only logical way to end the post.
Sorry Candace, I read the name but forget details. You're probably right, the fragrance was unique and remarkably strong, especially for a cold windy day. I googled it just now and it said grandiflora and they were definitely grandifloras. They had large clusters and even the petals were thick and soft. I was compelled to touch the petals and spend quite a while smelling them. Quite the generous rose.
Cheers to you too Zuma, and thank you, my good friend.
Jonathan, Don, Lorraine, Nick; I'm glad you liked the pitchers!
Maureen, thank you for your wonderful comment and for visiting my blog.
J D, that last one was the best one of all. You should have seen this rose garden though, it was even better than Loose Park in midsummer.
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It also brings to us the beauty of life, love and happiness.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems you carry beauty with you, Jeff.
And I didn't know Bleue was a witch. Or is she just bewitching?
My only tattoo is on my left bicep. A "Peace" rose put there nearly 35 years ago by the one and only Bert Grimm. Brilliant orange and yellows, faded by the sun by gardening for decades.
When we bought this junker, er, I mean, house with potential, the best part to see was/is the dozens of roses planted around. I am surprised to see so many that match the ones in your photos! My camera just will not capture them well, the vibrant colors go haywire, or the curving sharp lines fade.... very frustrating.
I am just thrilled to see how well they look under your photographer's eye!
So glad you had a great trip to Boise.
I have got to get to that Snake River canyon!
Rated for the good Nana :).
Nana: congrats! Nothing more beautiful than sun shining through rose petals. Gertrude Stein would be proud . . .
Gary, Trig's the one I stole the flower idea from. I figured if it worked for him it might work for me too, and looky, now I'm up there on the cover with the real OSers. :P
Trig, my next post will be about my tussle on Facebook with Christian Mingle after they put an ad on my page trying to get me to repent so I can meet hot, pious choir girls. Fight the power!
I'm a master at Photoshop, Seer. What's this about the "good" Nana though? I promise I'll be starting a flame war soon, it's the only way to keep things balanced. If there's anyone you'd like to see dusted please send me a PM and we'll get right on it. ;-)
Thanks for visiting my blog, Robin. I didn't know that about rosaries; what a cool bit of lore.
Just Thinking, get to the Snake River Canyon if you get a chance, I've never seen anything like it. It has the highest concentration of birds of prey of anywhere on the planet, and the scenery is spectacular.
Anna, thank you (again) for always saying such wonderful things.
Christine, Sheila, Anne, Ande, Mary, Froggy; I'm glad you like the pitchers!
It's wrong, I tell you. Wrong.
Hail Mary full of grace ...
Do you know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?
Kim, Ms. O'Keefe would have loved it there, it was a flower pornographer's wet dream.
Trig; that's exactly it. We were there. The conditions weren't optimal for roses or photography but there we were and it was beautiful.
You nailed it Sirenita. As Tink said, flowers say "Hello" to the camera, and to our senses, more enthusiastically than almost any other subject.
Sky, it's weird for me to see "romance" and "Internet" in the same sentence, but there it is.
Amen, Tom. The Bard knew what he was talking about, though his work went downhill after he joined Twisted Sister.
Brazen Princes, some of those roses were positively lewd.
Linnnnnnnn, one of the best things about a garden is that it's never really finished.
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It looks like Bleue is BREATHLESS!
It looks like we have a winner!
Your pictures have been pretty sweet, lately. You touchin' them up a bit with the photoshop (which is fine...I know you were getting into that for a while, so I was just wondering).
These are fun as hell to play with - http://www.lytro.com/living-pictures#living-pictures/282?&_suid=330
If you haven't seen the lytro, it's fucking amazing.
she was all crippled up & couldnt go out to the Garden no more.
they bloomed as such things do. not alot.
she enjoyed them with such
fervor.
she deadheaded every bloom.
alas, all we got in the end was just sticks.
so i bought her another one.
different color.
The first rose is amazing; I'd love to enlarge it and hang it on my wall. It looks like a beautiful painting. I'm also enchanted by the white/soft pink rose.....well, all of them really.
Love and happiness to you and Bleue. xo
so good to see you occasionally in touch with your feminine side & not afraid to express it hahaha :p
how come u resting on yer laurels re. rose piece, nan?
blake said re. roses, the flowers, metaphorically:
O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
worms, yuck. they got in yer burrito once, ha, ja?