Hellebore, my friend,
Tilting up your Winter smile.
Stay with me, till Spring?
Use your imagination, said Jude. I really didn’t need to. They were just waiting for me to notice them, so I could enter the Winter Garden challenge this week. My Lazy Poet friend Gilly found some too. We now have a chorus of hellebore!
restlessjo 
one word for this post: delightful. oh wait, one more – refreshing.
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Thank you, sweetheart 🙂 They’re so lovely to see in the depths of winter.
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Yes and the hint of color and soft focus is also winter fitting too – and speaking of winter – we
Might be getting our first snow tomorrow – ❄️❄️❄️❄️and I am actually ready! Ha
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Enjoy shoveling, Yvette! 🙂 We had just a tiny morsel 🙂
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Well I do not think we will get too much – some winters our area – Richmond – gets missed completely – think it has to do with where we are in relation to mountains and air streams – but if we shovel I am coming back with a photo – ha
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I love your atmospheric photos and your haiku too! Lovely, Jo. 🙂
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Keeps me off the streets for a little while, Cathy 🙂 Thank you!
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How hopeful it must have been to find these in your garden in the midst of winter weather.
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They come back each year, and each year it’s a surprise 🙂
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Gorgeous – such delicate colours. Thanks for posting these pics, Jo.
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Sweet faces, haven’t they? Happy weekend, Susan 🙂
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So elegant and beautiful against the harsh winter days – wonderful find!
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Oh, that wind was bitter cold today, Mary! But we got the sun back for a day. I’m hoping Spring is tiptoeing nearer 🙂
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What could be better than a hellebore chorus? They are both lovely. I concur about the great minds!!!
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Thanks, Ruth! Yes, we can Spring waltz together 🙂
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I have never seen hellebore flowers before…likely because I lived most of my life in colder climates where such a beautiful ‘Winter’s Flower’ would have no chance of survival. Lovely haiku
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The things we take for granted, Lisa! I always think our garden looks so bleak and uninviting in Winter, but these pretty things were there just waiting to be found. Snowdrops in the front garden too 🙂
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Sounds lovely ‼️
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A very pretty flower captured perfectly, Jo! 🙂
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It’s one of my favourites, Nandini 🙂 Thank you!
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Wunderschöner Beitrag Jo, vielen Dank fürs zeigen… 🙂
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Danke, Ernst 🙂 🙂
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These are one of my favourite flowers and your photos are beautiful…they will have to last me until mine break through the snow in May!!
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May!!! Good grief! I’ll have forgotten what they look like by then 🙂 Thanks for enjoying them with me.
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Gorgeous photo, I love the soft vignette effect around the edges! ❤ ❤ – http://www.domesticgeekgirl.com
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Just once in a while, I have a ‘little play’. I’m not much on technology 🙂 Thank you!
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Those photos are stunning Jo and I love the treatment you have given them, quite ethereal and well done with the perfect words in the haiku.
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Sometimes I like to use the effects instead of cropping, Pauline. Disguises the raggy edges and I’m much too lazy to crop. Glad you like them 🙂
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The effects are very effective!!!
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JO, one of my favorite spring flowers. Your captures and the poem are a lovely duet.
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Getting into the garden is no mean feat, these days, Sally! Torrential rain and snow aren’t my favourite companions 🙂 But I made it!
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Good for you…we need that nourishment and nurturing by Mother Nature.
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Your haiku are delicate and beautiful, as are your flower shots. And what synchronicity with Gilly!
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So funny, Meg! When I went to Gilly’s to ‘link up’ I thought I’d hit the Publish button early by mistake 🙂 But the reality check- her photo is much finer and the Spring waltz, quite perfect. 🙂
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Now here’s another anomaly, Jo. Our Hellebores (aka winter roses) tend to flower in spring 😉
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Life! 🙂 🙂 Beautiful, aren’t they?
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Jo are you telling me these are growing where you live? I just finished shoveling snow yet again. All plants are still or possibly shivering under their white blankets at the moment.
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Well, our snowdrops have been misguidedly waving the flag for Spring for a little while, Sue. 🙂 They’re in the tiny front garden, but the hellebores were hiding ‘out back’. It’s been too wet to venture out there so, nice surprise 🙂 We did have just a dusting of snow yesterday. Commiserations. 😦 You’ll be off to warmer climes soon? 🙂
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Australia is about 5 weeks away so not too long now. I keep the attitude that shovelling is good exercise. 🙂
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Beautiful haiku and photos, Jo. Those sweet little faces look like they’re smiling at me! 😀
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They are! 🙂
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Amazing Jo I’ve decided, we are psychic sisters, it’s really fab x:-)x and so are your haiku!
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I much prefer yours! Why didn’t I think of them as Lenten roses? Sure I could have worked that in somewhere! Thank you so much for the link. You’re very kind 🙂
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