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Need a little pick-me-up?  Flowers work wonders, even when looked at from an unlikely angle.

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Macro Monday winter blooms

I am really enjoying my first Amaryllis.  And Valentine's Day seemed like a good time to share the gorgeous red blooms.  Happy Valentine's day!

The blooms are a nice splash of color against the dreary winter.

I also extremely excited with my hibiscus plant deciding to bloom. Woohoo! Color!

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. :) MM started on Sept 29, 2008 - Thanx to all of you for helping make it such a fun start to the week!

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When winter came, I decided to bring the Hibiscus plant inside.  I had very little faith the plant would survive the winter inside any better than out, but I decided what the heck.  It went through a spell of dropping leaves, but now it's adding leaves and many blooms.  It didn't need my faith, it just needed me to make sure to it got sunshine and water.

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Peach Hibiscus

Seems I usually see red Hibiscus. When I bought a plant this spring I was happy to discover that we have two colors in the pot. I really like the soft peach ones.

Straight out of Camera Sunday #1

I'm hypercritical of my photos and I feel like every one needs at least a tiny bit of tweaking, but when I saw this one I thought it was close enough to perfect that I resisted the urge to manipulate it in any way.

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This is my first time participating in SOOC Sunday (Straight-out-of-camera).

Quail and Hibiscus

My parents have quail and while we were visiting I kinda fell in love with them. Too bad they're probably dinner by now. :( The ones with beige on their heads are girls and the ones with white are boys.

Inquisitive lil fellows.  Every time I went to the cage one of the girls would run like crazy, zipping this way and that - I was tempted to tuck her in my bag and bring her home.

Each time I helped mom care for the quail we passed by these huge hibiscus blooms! Dinner plates! That's my mom's arm - see her hand is entirely covered - huge blooms!