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Red, yellow and orange all over
May 8, 2010
Last weekend (don't worry I'll soon stop talking about last weekend) my mom brought a large bouquet of tulips from her garden to give to our hosts. They were breathtakingly beautiful and I snapped more photos of them than was sane.
The tulips are all gone bye* at our home. We're reveling in the beauty and fragrance of lilacs right now, a whole three weeks early. My garden is also a bloom with forget-me-nots, moss phlox, muscari, violas, bleeding hearts, bergenia, vinca minor and columbine. Starting the season of pinks, purples and blues.
But these last tulips of the season were all about red, yellow and orange. I couldn't get enough of these beauties. Thanks so much mom for adding this splash of color and beauty to our weekend.
*Does anyone else use this term gone bye to describe the end of a flowers bloom, I hadn't heard it before moving to Maine.
Update: looks like no one (of my readers), other than Mainers use the term gone by (seems I spelled it wrong also).
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Cindy on May 8, 2010, 6:09 p.m.
I use the term "gone by" but didn't know that it was "bye", which works too!
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Misha@ beauty and joy on May 8, 2010, 11:43 p.m.
GORGEOUS! I dream of wall size paintings of just this on big walls some day.
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Amanda on May 9, 2010, 12:16 a.m.
The second picture would look great blown up on my kitchen wall!! Keep up the good work Renee!! I wish we had flowers in bloom here already, I did have my tulips, but when the snow all came a week ago, they are all now flat on the ground.
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Jenn on May 9, 2010, 4:02 p.m.
I am loving your photo in this post that is very dark and the one in the post above (the oranges) in that dark dark room with shadows and just a hint of color and light. Great job!! Really moody and beautiful...I love the feeling it evokes in me.
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Jody on May 10, 2010, 4:42 p.m.
Such gorgeous colors! i have a bouquette of tulips on my table right now...they are not quite gone by here in Turner. (and yes, My family has always used that term. Doesn't everybody? LOL)
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Amanda on May 10, 2010, 10:31 p.m.
We say "gone by" too...fwiw...and I'm not from Maine! Those are beautiful colors and this post looks really beautiful to me right now! My little one pulled all the buds off the tulips before they had a chance to bloom this year! And he didn't leave enough stem to put them in water to give them half a chance inside, either. Bah!
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renee on May 10, 2010, 10:53 p.m.
Aw... maybe it's a new england term then. Took me a while to figure out fwiw. Damien enlightened me...
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Cori on May 8, 2010, 2:51 p.m.
Yes, but I know it as gone by, like they've passed by us, not said good bye.
renee on May 8, 2010, 2:51 p.m.
Opps... I meant to type gone, not good. Changing that now. And I wasn't sure about the by or bye.