Growing up in South Florida I never truly appreciated just how beautiful Spring is with everything coming back to life and being in bloom. Over the past few weeks there have been a few flowers that have stopped me in my tracks. Blooms so beautiful that I just absolutely had to take the time to admire them and try to get a photo or two of them.
I believe these are an onamental pear tree. If you know for certain please let me know in a comment. These were growing outside of the public library in Hixson, TN. They were the first tree in bloom that I really stopped to appreciate this season.
These I am pretty sure are cherry blossom. The tree was growing in the parking lot of the Northgate Mall. This is one of my favorite photos of the past few weeks. I must have looked so goofy walking around this tree in a busy parking lot for 15 minutes taking pictures, but I don't care. I got a couple of decent photos.
The macro lense on my Google Pixel 10 Pro XL is so much fun to shoot with. I have always enjoyed macro photography, but when I was photographing with DSLR my results were always inconsistent. Getting a decent photo had always been difficult. Being able to see the photo on such a good screen as I am taking the photo has allowed me to consistently get better macro shots. This was a dandelion that hadn't fully finished blooming.
Clover close up... I had no idea they had such details in the flower structure. These amazing flowers that I walk past so so often. Not realizing the beauty that I am so casually unaware of. I get such a beautiful sense of awe when I do really slow down and pay attention to the natural world around me.
Grape hyacinth is another flower that I have walked past many times, but never truly stopped to appreciate. God used these flowers to slow me down one day when I was scurrying about I was all kinds of stressed out. That moment made me recall a quote by poet Ingrid Goff-Maidoff. "God spoke today in flowers. And I, who was waiting on words, almost missed the conversation."
And these punk rock beautiful little oddities are Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule) according to Google Lens. They are quite small and the sun was really bright, so this is the best photo I was able to get. The depth of field on this level of close up is very small. The spiky hairs on them are really cool.
I was walking up Norcross Rd when I spotted these little wildflowers growing next to the road. Dove's-Foot Crane's-bill (Geranium molle) according to Google Lens. I am certain I have seen these, but never really looked closely at them.
Birdseye or persian speedwell (Veronica persica) is by far my favorite of the lawn growing "weeds." You see large swaths of these tiny little flowers growing in the lawns of Tennessee this time of year. If you ever notice a patch of really tiny bluish flowers growing in your yard. Stop, and take a closer look. I first noticed these a couple of years ago.
Just a simple pretty periwinkle. Sitting there just being splendid and all. Can a flower be humble? I love the hint of pinwheel that is in the direction of its petals. Almost like it is in motion.
This is another one of my favorite super common wildflowers. Fleabane (Erigeron spp.). I first noticed these all over the place when I lived in Mountain View, AR. They grew all over the property that I lived at. I fell in love with the delicate radial petals pointing out from the center. I think they were familiar seeming because they reminded me of the Bidens alba that I grew up with in South Florida.
I came across these dogwood in bloom when I was wandering around Downtown Chattanooga the other day. They were a bit out of reach. Well over the rail of the bridge, but I was able to get one or two decent pictures.
And these last flowers had me puzzled.The looked semi familiar, but I can't quite place where I have seen them. Possibly on the property in Arkansas where I used to live. I had to use Google Lens to find out that the three is an empress tree or a princess tree. I have to ask my friend Evan if this was what was growing by the greenhouse. But this one definitely caught my interest because none of the flowers were opened. They were all closed like this. Even the ones that had fallen. So I had to open one to see what it looked like on the inside.
These are some of my favorite flower photos from the past few weeks. I really have come to look forward to Spring and all of the flowers in bloom each year. I hope you have enjoyed them.
If you are still reading, please comment and let me know which I e was your favorite photo.
Below I will postaome of the other favorites from the last few weeks.
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