Sunday, August 30, 2015

Bloomin' Sunday..



Above, the first glimpse of the wonders awaiting us below in the valley. Despite the weather prediction of rain and storms yesterday we were up early and off to see the tulips at Araluen Botanical Park. This is the first time we've made it to the tulip festival and we weren't disappointed, it was spectacular! The red had the biggest blooms I've ever seen on a tulip and the colour.. oh la! it was so intense, the hardest to capture. Such a contrast between the surrounding native Australian bush and the exotic tulips and yet somehow it worked beautifully. Luck was with us, just as we made it back to the car the heavens opened and la pluie fell :) Unfortunately not so lucky for the busload of visitors that had just arrived. Hope you have a wonderful Sunday, take care and stay safe...


34 comments:

  1. Oh, such gorgeous, colorful tulips!! We have tulip festivals here in the northwest and I always try to go!! Terrific captures for the day!! Thanks so much for sharing the beauty! Hope you've had a great weekend and wishing you a beautiful new week!! Enjoy!!

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  2. What a wonderful setting for the tulips, Grace! I see the lovely redhead was with you! ;-)

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  3. These plants are not only beautiful ... but also they are wonderful !!.

    Tomás.

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  4. Blooming marvellous! Competition for Ottawa!!!!

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  5. They are exquisitely beautiful, Grace! It'll be months and months before I see them again!

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  6. A little bit of Netherlands in Australia! Arianna

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  7. All those tulips...for a minute there, I thought I was on William's photoblog!

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  8. Wow amazing intense colour Grace, beautiful pictures and glad you missed the rain!

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  9. The rain brought some good things.
    Lovely to photograph, but not easy.

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  10. Tulips are my favorite flower....and these are beautiful.

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  11. Tulips in August--how cool is that! Long way to go, though to see them. :-)

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  12. C'est vraiment très beau, c'est comme en Hollande :)

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  13. Wow, what a spectacular sight! All of those tulips and in such a wonderful natural looking setting. I love all of these shots.
    The color red does play havoc with digital cameras, doesn't it?

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  14. I had my fingers crossed for you weather wise! Smashing pics!!

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  15. They are wonderful and how inspired to photograph them through the bush.

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  16. All that color and one red head!



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  17. What a wonderful place. Colourful and pretty.

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  18. Ah, the tulipfields in Australia, nice pictures.

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  19. Beautiful pictures, Grace, oui, comme en Hollande, that was my first thought, too! So untypical for Australia!

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  20. Araluem is always amazing at tulip time. I haven't been there for 3 years I think... time to go again!

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  21. I like you comparison: red tulips alive with the sparseness of the woods behind.

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  22. Easy to start shooting, trickier to stop!

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  23. These are wonderful, Grace. It is like a quick visit to Holland.

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  24. Those blossoms make my heart sing; flowers will do it everytime for me!

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  25. Wow, Grace, these are wonderful !

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  26. Wow, how stunning these all are. As much as I enjoy summer the best, there's something so incredible and beautiful about spring and all that comes to life!

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  27. Nice! What a beautiful display of flowers.

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  28. Das sind Bilder vom Frühling schöne blühende Blumen.

    Gruß
    Noke

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  29. So, so pretty. Glad you finally made it - last year! :-))

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