FLOWERS

This lovely lily is actually a deep orange...

kind of like the center of a blood orange...

And 

the center is a deep, dark maroon..

(somehow it looks yellow-ey here..)

I just love the frilly fringed edges...;)))

AND

This one has more blooming to come...

Beautiful striations that my phone camera

just didn't pick up...

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A different species of flowers appear below

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My first embroidered 

lavender bush:

Three colors for flowers ;

at first I just had used two colors

but it looked 

way too dark...

So I added those little very light lavender french knots...

This took me about 2 hours 

to complete...

And

Here it is in progress

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I may make a few just partials also...

{Lazy Daisy stitches and French knots 

adorning the stem stitching}

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My ferns along the front walk in the late afternoon

seem to shimmer in this heat...

I am hoping the deer won't eat these buds off...

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this one directly above has never

bloomed before...

I wonder what color it will be...

It was a really humid day--but not quite as hot

as others...

so far, no rain in sight here...

Hugs from afar

Julierose, La Blageuse

(Enjoying-flowers-euse)