Gardening is good for my soul. Digging and laying paths are good for my body, at least so I try to convince myself as I nurse my aching ageing muscles. Watering, as long as the garden is small, is mesmeric and good for my seeing. This end of season light is low and soft as are the geranium flowers. Towards the end of the hot day the flower heads are as open as the beaks of young birds waiting to be fed. The stems stiffen as I water with the fine mist leaving heavy tear drops on the sated lips of the gorged blooms.
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Oh! yeah! Absolutely Sexy!
It just is, isn’t it:)
Yes, it is…might just need a cold shower myself, after that
I’m going to shoo Algy out of the pool, which is pretty much like a cold shower:)
Beautifully written and photographed.
Thank you. Rosemary, that means a lot.
I’m blushing. This is worse/better than that strawberry!
Beautiful!
It certainly was and I was lucky to be there to see it.
watering as mesmeric – perfect description !
Jenny often things I’ve been hypnotised by the amount of time it takes me to water a tiny garden:)
I have often dreamed of capturing such a shot but have never done it. Really lovely, Roger.
It’s good when it happens:)
Unbelievably beautiful
Thanks a lot, Tandy:)
Now I have the vapours.
Oh God, where have I put the salts:)
Beautiful flowers, Roger!
I’m glad you’ve enjoyed seeing them:)
You brought out the best in those flowers – “Hot sex!” as Bailey would say
And he would know:)
Sexy, indeed!
What could be better:)
Have to go back to the garden just left and ask my geraniums whether they are happy: methinks so . . . . little do they know that next week some branches will leave to see whether to stand on their own fragile root systems . . . . my deep pink ones softly wave to yours red . . .
Glorious.
Thanks for that.
I’ll never look at geraniums the same way again. And yes, gardening is definitely good for the soul.
If the garden is too big I feel that it would be better for someone else’s soul rather than mine:)
Phew – am off out for a stroll round the jungle we are dealing with here so that I can calm down!
It’s amazing what flowers can do:)
really beautiful. showered flowers
Glad you like them:)
Wow.. a side I’ve not seen here before.. 50 Shades of Red (Hot!) !! Loved these photos and the description!!
Excellent – 50 shades of red! I’ll remember that:)
Mercy she says fanning her face with her hands! is that flower blushing?.. c
Just red in the face from all that drinking:)