Tuesday 13 April 2021 Red Parrot Tulip, As A Flowering Plant, Eugene, Oregon
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The red parrot tulip was just beginning to bud in the circular back yard garden. Unlike other tulips, the red parrot bud was a little bit ugly. The petals of the red parrot tulip had turned almost completely red. The bud of the red parrot tulip turned a combination of red and green as it grew ready to bloom. A red parrot tulip was completely open and faced the afternoon sun. A red parrot tulip had opened just enough for its stamen to become visible inside. A red parrot tulip began to open, it resembled a red parrot screaming.
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• Ice Princess Tulip
• Tulip Leaves
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Sunday 11 April 2021 More Amber Glow Tulips, As A Form Of Flowering Plant, Eugene, Oregon
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Two of the front garden tulips opened their petals later that same day. The display was dramatic. Two early tulips of different heights had just bloomed in the front garden. They remained closed. Six Amber Glow tulips bloomed at random locations around a patch of dirt at the front of our property. They provided a welcome splash of warmth early in the 2021 spring season. Behind and to the right, leaves of lilies were beginning to grow. The first tulip of the season glowed in the sunlight of morning. Notice how its leaves curled.
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• Red Parrot Tulip
• Tulip Leaves
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Thursday 8 April 2021 Rosemary (Salvia Rosmarinus), As A Form Of Bush, Eugene, Oregon
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These rosemary plants had narrow pointed, evergreen leaves. The flower grew at the end of a stem. The contrast of the lavender flower with those leaves could be quite dramatic. A wider photograph shows the rosemary bushes position at the rear of the front garden raised bed. They are evergreen and stay a lovely green the year round. The flowers on these rosemary plants were a lovely purple. They were tiny flowers that grew in a cluster. Three Rosemary bushes grew in a tight cluster at the rear of the front yard raised garden bed. The sharply pointed leaves can be used to give food a flavor.
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Sunday 4 April 2021 Happy Easter! -- Reprise: Egg Shapes As Found Art
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A glass bowl of egg shaped Christmas ornaments was on display in a store window in the Embarcadero Center. A tiny image of the photographer taking this picture was captured in multiple reflections. Behind the photographer, and outside the window behind were blue sky and trees. A tree decorated for a birthday appeared to have plastic fruit shaped like eggs. The apparent fruit was actually thin plastic which split horizonally through the middle. At the time, a gentle tap revealed the eggs were empty.
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• Hexagon
• Trapezoid
• Stars
• Wiggles
• Chevron
• Organic Shapes
• Rectangle
• Circles And Spheres
• Octagon
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Friday 2 April 2021 Peony Leaves, As A flowering Plant, Front Garden, Eugene, Oregon
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The peony plant grows with straight red stems with sprout red leaves. The green hoops are there to support the plant when it later flowers because those flowers will be heavy and huge. As the leaves began to unfurl, they became a paler red than the stems and will eventually turn green. This green hoop was too small for the number of stems growing.
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• Peony Flowers
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