Flowers for Leontien

Flowers For Leontien

*hugs*

You can read her courageous story here at Four Leaf Clover Tails

Link to Flowers for Leontien to join in.

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Indian Pipe - Macro Monday/ABC Wednesday (I)

While on vacation at the cottage, I spent a lot of time (too much time), photographing various mushrooms and fungi. I thought this little gem was some king of fungus, but I was wrong.

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It's a herbaceous perennial plant (Monotropa uniflora), in the Ericaceae family,

AKA - Indian Pipe, Ice Plant, Fairy Smoke, Ghost Flower, Corpse Plant, Ghost Pipe, Dutchman's Pipe, Eyebright, Convulsion Weed, and Fit Root.

This is one of about 3000 species of non-photosynthetic (i.e. heterotrophic) flowering plants. It's white and doesn't have any chlorophyll. Instead of generating energy from sunlight, it is parasitic. Its hosts are certain fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, meaning it ultimately gets its energy from photosynthetic trees. (Thanks for that info Wikipedia).
It can grow in very dark environments as on the floor of dense forests, which is exactly where I found it!

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Simplicity - Macro/Mellow Yellow Monday

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. 

~Confucius

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Summer Rain - Black And White Weekend

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 HERE @ The Weekend In Black and White

Teeny Tiny - Macro Monday

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“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star,

fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour.

I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity

~Hazel Lee

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Woodland Flower - Macro Monday

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Flowers whisper "Beauty" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall. 

~Dr. SunWolf

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Going Buggy - Macro/Mellow Yellow Monday/Ruby Tuesday

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My neighbour's vine trails over the fence. It has beautiful blossoms. I noticed today that the usual abundant blooms are sparse, and many have turned brown, although it has just started flowering. Going in for a closer look, I found out why...it's infested with aphids,  visible upon closer inspection. Ewwwwwwwwww....

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Curls - Macro/Mellow Yellow Monday

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Caress the detail, the divine detail

Vladimir Nabokov

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Texturized - Macro Monday

Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".
~Author unknown

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Unmistakable Perfume

Macro Monday

      Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.

William Cowper

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Shadows Cast in Orange

Shadow Shot Sunday/Mellow Yellow Monday

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Flowers Of Hope - Carnations

Macro Monday, Mellow Yellow Monday, Today's Flowers, My World Tuesday

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May is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness month in Canada. Every year the MS Carnation Campaign takes place in May to help raise funds and increase awareness. Carnations are sold on street corners, malls and other public spaces. The carnation is Canada's oldest and most recognized symbol of hope in the quest to end multiple sclerosis.

World wide, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects about 2.5 million people. Canadians have one of the highest rates of MS in the world. I am one of those Canadians. MS lasts a lifetime.There is no cure.

Over $45 million has been raised through the MS Carnation Campaign since its inception. Funds raised support MS research and services. $45 million worth of flowers is equal to 9 million bouquets of flowers or 27 million individual stems.

What Is MS?

May 25th is World MS Day

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Just Dandy - Macro/Mellow Yellow Monday

The radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun

Henry Ward Beecher
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Without Colour - Black and White Weekend

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Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world 

 ~Murasaki Shikibu
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Rosy - Macro Monday

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Flowers in Winter - Macro and Mellow Yellow Monday

Winter in my part of Canada lasts a long time. We are buried in snow, and this part of the world seems devoid of vivid colour. I so enjoy looking at the flower photos from other parts of the world, as I peruse various photo blogs. I said to my husband last week, I can't wait until winter is over so I can photograph some flowers! Being the sweet man that he is, he brought home a bouquet of my favorite flowers to cheer me up, and give me an opportunity to take some pics.

Alstroemeria, aka Peruvian Lily or Lily of the Incas

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“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one,
and a lily with the other”

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