Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Blossom

This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

How lucky is this shot! Though the one in flight isn't crystal clear, I was elated that I got this neat image!! This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

the Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, perennial plant native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. There are at least 36 species, some which grow up to 10 meters tall! Dahlia hybrids, of which there are countless types, are commonly grown as garden plants. The Aztecs gathered and cultivated the dahlia for food, ceremonies, as well as decorative purposes, and the long woody stem of one variety was used for small pipes. Dahlias are used as food plants by the larvae of some moths and butterflies, and are a favorite nectar source of bees. The dahlia is named after Swedish 18th-century botanist Anders Dahl.[5] In German the dahlia was known during most of the 19th century as Georgia, being named after the naturalist Johann Gottlieb Georgi of St. Petersburg, Russia. (Info from Wiki) If you would like to know more about dahlias, please visit this Wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

(for those of you who are interested in seeing my San Francisco trip images, I have uploaded 10 pictures in this batch [88 in the past couple of weeks]. Thanks everyone for your comments and your visits to my photostream! I hope you enjoy the show!) This is the first of many pictures I took at the Conservatory of Flower's jaw-dropping Dahlia Garden. Never in my entire life have I ever seen such an enormous garden of absolutely perfect flowers! My friend Laura spotted them and in the end, she had to drag me away, kicking and screaming the whole way! There were dozens upon dozens of varieties to drool at, and I could have spent the whole day taking pictures of these intensely beautiful flowers. In the following days, you'll see lots of dahlia images sprinkled throughout my San Francisco: Golden Gate Park images...I hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them! By the way, for those of you who may not know, there is a very fun, free Flickr competition site which you might like to take part in. It's called FlickrDuel and features dozens of ongoing competitions, or duels every day. You can enter your pictures into many different categories and vote on contests too. It's another way to enjoy your photography! This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

This lovely dahlia was facing into the garden and gave me a very nice opportunity to take a picture from behind the blossom. This also marks the last of my dahlia garden images! I hope you enjoyed them! This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

The Conservatory of Flower's breath-taking Dahlia Garden was overflowing with thousands of absolutely perfect flowers! So many lovely blossoms, I wished I could have spent the whole day taking pictures! Winner of FlickrDuel contest: +10 Wins: Color: Pink This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

Many of these beautiful flowers are so large that it was easy to fill the frame with a juicy, face-filling close up of utter beauty! :) This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

This image was taken during a MeetUp hike to Mt. Ashland on July 30, 2011.

(please scroll down for 3 more pictures!) Our property has two seasonal streams, and the larger of the two has some our most beautiful flowers growing along its edges throughout spring and early summer. I was so excited when this one began blooming! The Great Camas grows in the Pacific Northwest and has a white variety as well as this lovely blue-purple flower. Its bulb were a food source of Native Americans, but today its beauty has elevated it to that of a exquisite and sought-after garden flower. It's no wonder this is one of my favorites! :) NOTE! I'll be taking Saturday off but will have more pictures up on Sunday night...have a great weekend!!

The wonderful blackberry, a beautiful flower which results in my favorite berry! Many hate this bush because it is so hard to remove when unwanted, but for people like Steve and me, blackerry blossoms have us dreaming about the upcoming berries and the yummy treats! All my life, my family has loved blackberries. My mom and I used to go blackberry picking near our summer cabin in northern California, and mom would make the most amazing jams and jellies, pancakes, pies and cobblers! Steve and I were very happy to find that there are blackberries growing on our property, and every year we enjoy a bountiful harvest from July through September! All hail the great blackberry! HUZAH!! HUZAH!! HUZAH!!! :D This species is native to Armenia and southwest Asia. It was introduced as a cultivar in many places around the world and immediately spread all over. It's a very common species in the Pacific Northwest, where it can be found wherever there it a source of water, especially along creeks and rivers. If you would like to know more about this yummy berry plant, Wiki has a great page here: Wiki: Himalayan Blackberry (Rubus armeniacus)