Oops! Meant to post this yesterday for Cee’s Flower of the Day for February 18, 2018. Better late than never, I suppose. Cee’s flower was a bearded iris and one had just popped up in the garden, so I thought I’d do another, too. 🙂
An iris flower is the epitome of temporary. Bright blooms one day. Brown, withered remnants the next.
It is remarkable that in less than a week this iris went from a bud with a promising future to a beautiful blossom then to this, a tired, old flower nearly bleached of color.
In my previous post, I said, “Soon this bud will open…”. One day later, it did. Further, almost a year ago in a post with an iris, I responded to a comment and said, “Next year, if we are lucky, we will have some of these beauties of our own.” And here it is. For once, I ‘predicted’ the future :-).
Soon this bud will open and perhaps develop seeds to yet another future.
Bearded iris
The bearded iris is a showy flower and some, like this one, have vivid colors.
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