Garden Views - ♥pink♥ (Brenda's Photo Challenge)

Collection: Shades of Pink in early May. Audience? Hummingbirds!! Hooray, they are back at WillOaks Farm. They love pink and they love tubular blossoms. I love to watch them and I keep a feeder up for them, too.

I've updated this post for the 5-22 Brenda Photo Challenge featuring FLOWERS! The title of my post now links to the list of participants and wow, there are some beautiful flower photos to see!! Enjoy!! And have a lovely weekend!

Dualities - Part One (Pink)

Life here at WillOaks seems to offer a robust range of experiences. These can really be quite a study in contrasts as the past couple of days have illustrated for me. On one hand, I've been noticing an amazing range of pink flowers here as we approach autumn. So soft, feminine and even romantic, the rosy tones are found in newly blooming mums, fading hydrangeas, fresh new mallows, and the rich coloring and textures of the Autumn Joy sedums.

But the reason I present this as a duality (part one) today is to marvel at the contrast of these blossoms with what I've actually been working on these past couple of days....I laid a new floor! It was really challenging to do, since it was the first time I've attempted such a project. It was hard work, it was very physical, and frankly, it felt like a sort of masculine kind of project.

So I'll present you with my flowers here today, and in a day or two, after I finish putting in the trim and the thresh holds on my new floor, I'll post those images. It's been quite an adventure in learning...

Shades of Pinks

I remember a naive idea I once had when starting an earlier garden, some years ago, while living on our farm in Iowa. I was in the beginning stages of figuring out what plantings I wanted to put where, and I decided I was going to leave the color "pink" out of the gardens. Well, it was hard to accomplish and eventually, I gave up that idea. These days, I find I just adore the color pink and am awed by the rich variations available in this color. In fact, the three colors: pink, burgundy and yellow (or greenish yellow) were the three main colors I started to work with when planning these current gardens.

The images I'm using here are by no means complete, but rather are more examples of PINK that don't duplicate other recent images. I have no idea if pink is popular, this year, in the world of fashion....but I like to wear it, I like to use it and I like to look at it, so as I look through the gardens and these images, I definitely intend to add more pink to my wearable art collection!