If I were a bee, I’d see this view every day, over and over, drunk with joy and pollen. I wouldn’t need an iPhone camera. I’d have my wings.
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”
~Luther Burbank
“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”
~Kakuzō Okakura, The Book Of Tea
and my favorite:
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
(for Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Macro)
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🙂 How beautiful!
Have a very HAPPY Monday 🙂
Happy Monday to you, too, Claudia.
janet
Absolutely stunning detail!!
Thanks very much, Aletta. I hope your week’s off to a great start.
janet
Thanks Janet, I am too busy to get to aall the blogs!!! Hopefully this week will be better!
I know the feeling. 🙂
🙂
What a beautiful macro shot.. Have a good Monday, Janet..
Thank you, Nurul. I hope your Monday and week is also wonderful
Janet, the quotes are great, and the photo is spectacular. You started off Monday with a bang. 🙂
Good morning, Judy. I’ve dug your comment out of my spam folder and wonder why you were put there with the porn and psychic links. :-0 Glad you liked the photo and have a wonderful Monday. 🙂
I love that Emerson quote!
As heard in “Elf”: “It’s my favorite!” 😉
janet
A stellar view to be sure…text, quotes and image are a lovely combination. Happy Photo Challenge.
Thanks very much, Sally. Had a wet but good few days in Philly and we’re now back home enjoying just a bit of sun before we get more rain later today. Have a wonderful Monday.
janet
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If flowers are the laugh, are bees the giggles? (We’re watching for bees – the honey bees visited all winter, but seeing more red wasps now…and watching for those new nests UGH)
Great flower, girl.
They might be the giggles but they’re certainly the bee’s knees. 🙂 Thanks for buzzing by with a sweet comment.
janet
To bee or not to bee 🐝
That is the brilliant question
For this astounding image.
-Carol
It’s a honey of a question, Carol. 🙂
jant
Lovely ❤️
Thanks! 🙂
janet
Sweet curves 🙂
Glad you like them, Joey, and a very happy Monday to you and yours.
janet
And to you 🙂 Thanks!
Wow, now that’s a macro shot. Beautiful! 🙂
Thanks a lot, Linda. 🙂
janet
Stunning image, Janet. Oh, how wonderful it would be to be a bee. 😀
🙂 Hopefully we’ll be more careful around bees so that we don’t have a plant and food crisis!
What a beautiful photo! Sharp and perfect lighting! I’d love to be a bee just for one day 😉 Nicola
It would be fun for just a bit, wouldn’t it?
janet
Oh yes!
Joyous! Lovely image and words Janet.
I’m happy you thought so, Su. 🙂
Nice verse and quote. I’m smiling. 🙂
It’s always good to make someone smile, Lignum. 🙂
janet
Simply gorgeous Janet. 😀
Thanks very much, Cee. 🙂
Really beautiful macro work Janet! Love the quote too.
It’s amazing what good macro work the iPhone (even my “old” 5s) does. It’s sunny this morning, finally and at least for a bit, and I bought some flowers so our garden can do some laughing of its own. 🙂
I can’t work my iPhone 7Plus to create this kind of macro magic on its own. Did you add a macro camera, or lens?
Ah, a laughing garden sounds like a happy place to be! “)
No, just the phone. Try putting the camera not too close and then zooming in with the little circle at the bottom. I find it focuses better that way. I do have an Olloclip set, but as I have to take the case off my phone to use it, I have to make more of an effort and I don’t carry it with me.
I too have to remove the case to use the Ollo Clip. It’s a pain isn’t it. 🙂
Yup!
Nice captured. I find it a challenge to take an interesting photo with my mobile. Do you like it to see it then click on my page on ‘Mobile shots’.
Quite a few of the photos on my blog are taken with my iPhone 6s. I have a Nikon also, which I really need to learn to utilize better. But I think the phone does rather well and I like that I can take it with me everywhere and every day.
janet