47/52 Petals

This is a rose that was in a beautiful bouquet of flowers. I was given the flowers and Mark was given a bottle of single malt whiskey at a special dinner for he and a large group of his colleagues to celebrate their 25 years of service. Neither of us drink whiskey :0}

42/52 The Elopement

My good friend E was married this week, to her other half C, after a flurry of organising once they'd finally decided to do the deed, and not wait until the spring. With not even two pennies to rub together, a low-key ceremony was the order of the day with E's two daughters and two witnesses - myself and another - present, and afterwards back to their place after for a cuppa and a slice of cake. I was wedding chauffeur with ribbons on my car too, and the flowers were a gift from me. I loved it - a dress down wedding with almost no trimmings, but bags of love and committment, not a dry eye in the Register Office ;0)

36/52 Toad Lily

My Toad Lily plant has survived the winter and the slugs to bloom beautifully for me again. I love these flowers. And I love this lens too - Sigma 105mm 2.8 EX macro.

21/52 Sunny spells, scattered showers

The clematis montana that grows through our tamarisk tree is once again in full bloom, each flower stretching up and opening out towards the sun.

20/52 Daisy Chain

Jodie picked daisies on the way home from school, so I said pick them with the stems long and I'll make a daisy chain when we get home.

14/52 Pollen cafe

Am I blogging too many flowers? Tough - its finally SPRING!

12/52 Cleared to land

I was having a field day on these amazing crocus blooms near Ashbourne - I do love spring - but when I reviewed my images later I was thrilled to have captured a bee homing in on these pollen-rich beauties. Cool :0)

11/52 Yellow

So now I'm thinking... I should have taken a photograph of the label so I could tell you what this beautiful spring-flowering plant is called. Memo to self...

9/52 What a gem

I captured this little gem in the garden this morning, first chance in a long time worth taking cam out there to see what was coming up.

5/52 Tulip

This week was a bumper week for flowers in my house. I love being given flowers and photographing them too :0) and this week was spoilt for choice.