Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: magenta

This stunner of a dahlia was one of the beauties that Steve and I photographed at the Dahlia exhibit in San Francisco's Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. We visited one day when we were staying at my dad's place and took some time for a photo break. I have another dozen pictures I've processed from that trip and I know there are probably 50-75 other pictures that I could process as well. It just blows my mind how incredibly beautiful these flowers are! I wanted to let everyone know that Steve and I are doing just great! In fact, when Steve went to Costco a couple of weeks back, the store was almost perfectly stocked and we were able to get one huge pack of toilet paper and paper towels to top us off. We didn't need more than that but it was nice to get it. No sanitizer but we don't really need it anyway. All is well! We're having a great time immersing ourselves in games but also, the weather is so lovely that Steve went for a bike ride yesterday and I'll follow suit today! :) I have my morning walks every day but it's nice to go out later for a change of scenery. Oregon continues to show very low numbers compared to California to the south and Washington to the north...we are both convinced that the low number is because Oregon hasn't been testing very many people. In any event, Steve and I view the populous as infected just to be safe. Steve shops only once every two weeks or so, and is out as little as possible. It does look like things may finally be slowing down in the rate of infections...it feels a lot more positive in the past few days to me, but maybe Spring Fever has infected me and filled me with positive vibes! In any event, I'm definitely feeling a lot better lately! Let's hope things continue improving in a upward spiral! :) *** Pam, I picture you and your husband living in your little fortress, just like we are! I'm really glad that Corona hasn't swept over the world and taken everyone out like the media suggested it would. Bad enough that so many have died...the horror of everything that's happened is too hard to look at but let's cross our fingers that things may actually be getting better! * Thinking of you with many hugs! * Explored on 4/15/20; highest placement #1.

What fun to have the excuse to play with textures! This pretty little flower was wonderful in every way...except that it was growing right in front of a white garage door. No worries...just change the background to a texture and suddenly the pretty little flower against a boring dirty white door turns into something artistic and fun! Explored on August 18, 2016. Highest placement, #59.

Here's another flower from the Garden tour in Ashland! Sometimes you get lucky with the lighting and you find a flower that's well-lit with several others that are in shadow. A bit more deepening of the background for a more dramatic effect and I had my picture complete!

(+1 in a note) I discovered a wonderful sea of pink flowers that just begged for a bokeh shot, filled with lush green and splotches of magenta. This is another picture I rescued from my archived garden tour folder. :) Please let me know if you have an idea of what these flowers are called so I can properly identify them. :) I also took a top-down picture to show the lovely details of this flower, just roll your mouse over the upper left corner to see. :) Explored on August 1, 2016, placement unknown.

Spring in southern Oregon is a sight to behold, and some of the showiest flowers are the dogwoods. Here is a glimpse of a few branches from a tree in full bloom. They are breathtaking!! I captured these beauties a few years ago when I was on a bike ride with my husband in the Applegate Valley! :)

In 2013, Steve and I cycled almost every weekend with a local group that went on rides all over southern Oregon. I always took my camera and whenever we took breaks, I could be found creeping around with my camera and having a glorious time! Our springs are incredible here, and for the first time in my life, I got to see magnolia trees in bloom. I wasn't prepared for the dozens of species that have been planted here, and oh the flowers!! INCREDIBLE! So many colors, different shapes and sizes of blossoms...what a treat to capture them! I found this pink magnolia image just yesterday. It makes me so happy to give the proper attention to it, and to share with all of you! :) Thanks to all of you who properly identified tthis flower as a DOGWOOD! :D I thought it was a Magnolia! :D

Note: my latest article is up which shows my raised bed garden in bloom! Part 10: Dreams of a Big Flower Garden: An Explosion of Color!! I have finally arrived at the last letter of the alphabet, and this is one of the beautiful Zinnias that have bloomed in my garden! By the way, "zazzy" is slang which means, "a basic cross between zany , pizazz and snazzy to create an adjective suggesting that something is too great to be confined to one word." I have three sections devoted to Zinnias, each with a different kind. This section has Dwarf Zinnias, and I was really surprised to find that about two dozen seeds germinated for me. The plants took off like wildfire...that is, until Cucumber Beetles discovered them. The insects ate many of them down to the ground, and severely damaged the others. I had been so excited and happy because all of the sections of Zinnias were doing so well, and within a couple of days I lost many of them and was facing the death of all of them. I was desperate. Though the chili-garlic spray I was using worked a little bit, the seedlings continued to be damaged. I finally tried a insect powder which I sprinkled onto the leaves and it worked! Finally my Zinnias were left alone, and to my amazement, many of the seedlings that were basically dead came back and are now creating buds! Hooray!! My Dwarf Zinnias are almost all shades of pink, but there's one orange-red one too, and there are others yet to begin blooming, so there may be other colors as well. I'm so happy to share my first Zinnia flower with all of you, grown from a tiny seed, and what a nice picture to end my Alphabet project with! Explored on July 21, highest placement: #1.

(+1 inset, showing our metal trough planter full of flowers) Note: I just finished writing the first of a series of blog posts about my new garden! My New Adventure: A Raised Bed Flower Garden! (There are several posts now, the bottom of each links to the next) Last August, I asked Steve to bring home some seeds so I could conduct an experiment: I wanted to see if I could get a fast-blooming plant like a Zinnia to bloom before frost in November. He found a 25¢ deal on flower seeds and brought home a bunch of them. One of them was Sweet Williams. When I discovered they were "biennial", I thought they would never bloom, so I took a bunch and tossed them in my metal trough planter and some in my front flower garden, since it wouldn't hurt and I didn't think they would grow anyway. (The deer ate my experiments, boo!) This spring, something strange plants started growing in each garden. The tops were green and fuzzy, sort of like a Tribble on a stem. Having no idea what this odd plant could be, I waited and wondered. I specifically didn't look on the internet because I simply love flower surprises! One day, about three weeks ago, I saw a bud forming and I could see that the whole top would be covered with them. A couple of days later, the first flower opened and I could hardly believe the beauty of this gorgeous flower! It was a Sweet William, and I'd never seen one face to face before! Stunned by its beauty, I remembered they are in the carnation family, so I leaned in to smell... mmmmmm... sweet and spicy, the classic and unmistakable carnation fragrance! About then it suddenly ocurred to me: the metal trough was FULL of these "Tribble Tops", dozens and dozens of them, plus a couple in the front flower bed. I was in for a SHOW!! (See the inset picture) What a show it has been, and I am so dazzled by these flowers! They are a mix of colors ranging from white to purple, with varigated forms, and they are positively, drop-dead gorgeous. They are now among my favorite flowers, and I'll be sharing more pictures through the year! :) Explored on May 27, 2014. Highest placement, #1.

This image was taken during the month of October, 2011.

The flower family of Clarkia includes more than 40 species, and I'm very happy that there are at least five species on our property! This little beauty is small, about 1/2" in diameter, and has four distinctive magenta spots on each petal. Clarkia species are all native to western North America, although there is one species that grows in Argentina, South America. If you would like to know more about these gorgeous flowers, Wiki has a page here: Wiki: Clarkia By the way, I've uploaded two other pictures today and I hope you'll visit them too! Thanks to all of you who have visited and have left comments and favorites! I try to go to all of your pages within a day or two and is a highlight for me to see your beautiful photography! :)

Yet another subspecies of Clarkia, this one is larger than the others and resembles another flower that grows here called Dwarf Checkerbloom. Winecup Clarkia often has spots on its petals and has a slightly different shape. Purple Clarkia is fairly small in size, about 1/2"-1" in diameter. It's native to the Pacific Northwest and ranges in color including pink, purple, and deep wine red. If you would like to know more about Clarkia species, Wiki has a source here: Wiki: Clarkia