Believe it or not, I took this today, October 22, at the Pike Place Market in Seattle, which sells only what the local growers actually grow on their farms. How sweet to see these pink zinnias’ cheerful faces, into autumn as we surely are.

Visit Pink Saturday for more perfect pinkness and Color Carnival for many brilliant colors. Macro Flowers Saturday has more flower close ups, and Today’s Flower has flowers from around the world. Macro Monday has more close ups of all kinds. Let’s try a new meme: Flowers on Saturday!

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The weather in Seattle was so cool for most of the summer that the cosmos didn’t get going until the end of September, and they are supposed to be summer annuals! The good part is that those flowers, so late in starting, are now blooming like crazy, so my backyard border (shown from my bedroom window) is filled with huge bushes of cosmos, taller than I am. The roses are few but company coming called for a bouquet.

Visit Ruby Tuesday for more ruby redness gracing all kinds of photos. Color Carnival has more bright colors. Scenic Sunday as always shows us scenery around the world. Windows and Doors has lots of ’em, creatively seen. And SOOC has more straight-out-of-the-camera shots. A new meme, Monthly Garden Bouquet, features photos of blooms from your garden.

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This brugmansia plant in Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory has flowers about the length of my hand and is quite amazingly beautiful. Its graceful curves are hard to capture in a photo. One of the very odd things about it is that occasionally a different color flower will occur on the same plant, at least on this peachy pink kind. You can see a yellow one in the background, and it is on the very same stem as the others. Brugmansia, or angel trumpet, is in the datura family and I believe is poisonous. But oh, so beautiful!

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A short while ago the Pike Place Market still had lots of late summer flowers. Here’s a close up of a pretty pink and yellow snapdragon flower. Didn’t you just love to pinch their little cheeks and see the jaws open when you were a kid?

Try Macro Monday and Mellow Yellow Monday for more close ups and more yellow, respectively. If you click the tag “close up” on this blog you might be surprised at how many flowers (mostly) appear.

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I used to grow a Spathiphyllum plant like this in the old days when I had lots of houseplants. It actually flowered for me, which is remarkable. The leaves are a nice, dark green and it can manage on pretty low light and some neglect. This lovely specimen, recently seen in the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle, was multi-flowering.

Visit Shadow Shot Sunday down at Hey Harriet’s blog for more intriguing photos with shadows creatively seen, Today’s Flowers, Windors and Doors, Blue Monday and Macro Flowers Saturday.

These butterfly-shaped orchids are irresistable. I love the way there is a whole stream of them on one stem, one behind the other. I took this photo at Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle not too long ago. Orchids are amazing and there seem to be some in bloom throughout the entire year at the Conservatory. Whatever they do, it’s working.

Visit Macro Flowers Saturday , Color Carnival , Pink Saturday and SOOC (straight out of the camera) if you have time. Great photos there.

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I took this old-fashioned rose photo at Highline Botanical Garden not too long ago. It’s a little garden (a few acres) right north of SeaTac Airport that’s just a delight, rain or shine. And the plants don’t mind the low-flying planes.

Visit Ruby Tuesday for more red wonderfulness. And you might click on the tag “red” or the category of “Ruby Tuesday” while you’re here, hmm? Visit Watery Wednesday for more cyberwetness. You might also try Color Carnival, or Scenic Sunday. To reach the latest posts do click on Sara’s Fave Photos, here or above.

These yellow chrysanthemums were in the entryway of the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle a week or so ago. Their full mum display hasn’t begun yet, and I can’t wait! I’ve always loved their spicy scent, so crisp and definitely a fall kind of smell.

Visit Mellow Yellow Monday and Macro Monday for things both yellow (the former) and closely seen (the latter), although not everyone does it in one photo like I tend to do. Also, check out the colors at Color Carnival! I really like it when a photo of mine fulfills the theme of several memes at once. That’s efficiency!

You might try a new tag or category while you’re still here. How about “yellow”? And remember, you can always get to the complete blog by clicking on Sara’s Fave Photos, here or above.

Thought you’d like to see some roses from this summer, taken on the Federal Way Garden Tour in July. Seattle may have a lot of cloudy, gray weather, but the summers are glorious.

Visit Flowers for Today for more blooms around the world. It has neat shadows, so I’m entering it in the Shadow Shot Sunday meme, too. It’s straight out of the camera, or SOOC. And you’ll find more brilliant color in Color Carnival.

I totally love the sunlight and shadow on these perfect blooms, so I am tagging this post my Best Post of the Week.

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Last week at the Pike Place Market there were about a zillion kinds of dahlias, along with truckloads of armfuls of sunflowers and even some late oriental lilies perfuming up the place, all grown locally by the vendors. What a show. I now have a new favorite dahlia, called ‘Elizabeth’. To me it’s just the prettiest thing. I think those are white asters along with the dahlias.

Visit Pink Saturday and Macro Flowers Saturday for more exciting photography in blogland.

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