A gorgeous rose... look at the mix of colours- pink, orange, yellow!

Frosty the rose

A frosted, frozen flower

Black-eyed Susans

Orange in nature - habanero peppers

Orange in nature - dont know the flower

Orange in nature - African lilies

Orange in nature - begonia

Pushy

The glory of a sunflower

Beautiful black-and-white building from the 1700s

The amazing headless swan... seen here with its not-so-amazing half-grown cygnet.

Purple clematis against a sun-dappled wall

Art against a Roman wall

The magnificent organ (being played, if you look close) at the cathedral

Chester cathedral, with its long spiky vertical lines and lovely ceiling

Sky, wall, lamp

Strawberry red

Red and white

My weirdly shaped red rosebud

White sparaxis with purple centre

More lavender

I like the look of the cement path as the background.

 

Sprig of lavender

Pink dwarf sweetpea

Yellow sparaxis

My lily, thoroughly inspected

My golden-yellow African lily

Side view

Back view

Back view 2

Pollen

Looks like I'm not the only one attracted to the gorgeous scarlet colour...

Macro of my poppy's centre - it was amazingly pretty when I went beyond the scarlet colour (which I love) and focused on the centre of the flower.

Close-up

First poppy of the season in my flowerpot garden!

Lucky clover leaf, dew-fresh.

Very very close-up of one of the flowers... I really liked the silvery-pink of the stamens (I hope that's the correct botanical term).

Sparaxis - three on a stem

Same thing, in B&W - doesnt this look better?

I like the effect of the clouds here.

English Bridge by night (around 11pm), when we cycled back home after a pub crawl.

English Bridge by daylight, around 6pm, when we went cycling down the river path.

Found this friendly fish on my lawn one fine Friday (anybody have a word for "lawn" beginning with "f"?) :) Fishy here belongs to the dog next door.

Strange cloud formation? Nah... probably another jet trail - even if it seems to be vertical!

Treetops at dusk

My neighbour's roses

A Sparaxis - again, I dont know if there is a common name for it. It's a bit ragged at the edges, this flower - but I decided to take a photo anyway.

My gerbera, close-up. Hopefully I'll have a couple of other colours in the near future...

My favourite daisy - the English Gerbera. They come in such glorious, rich colours... but this one is a pale orange - still beautiful, though.

Talk about contrasts... the leisurely balloon and the jet trail left by an aeroplane.

Caught a balloon sailing serenely in the dusk (around 9.30 pm, actually)