Shall we revel in curvaceous beauty?
Sensuous swishing,
Shaking off the kiss of rain.
Don’t you like my curves?
After the rather sombre mood of my last post I’m in need of a little uplifting beauty. The Weekly Photo Challenge gives me the perfect opportunity. I hope Jude will approve this for her garden too.
Gilly – for you I have your own personal six words. “I don’t have time to tanka”.
Warm hugs to all. Have a great weekend, and don’t forget to share with Cate. Join me on Monday for one last Polish walk?
Loving your curves lovely Jo! 🙂 ss
So many beauties at this time of year, Sherri! Sending hugs, sweetheart 🙂
The most perfect curves ever Jo and I love your Haiku. Stunning captures darling. An excellent choice for the challenge. 😀 ♥
Thanks, darlin’. Poppies, irises… all those flamboyant ladies. I love them all! 🙂 Hugs, sweetheart!
Same here darling. ♥ Hugs ♥ to you as well. ❤
Great macro shots; nature does curves best! 🙂
Thank you so much, Yousuf! Nice to have your company. 🙂
You’re very welcome. 🙂
I like your curves and I love your words.
Thanks, honeybun 🙂 ‘Back to normal’? Hugged and kissed and missed by the twins? 🙂
gorgeous flowers! 🙂
I love poppies, LolaWi 🙂
Interesting looking flowers! I hope you did not get kissed by the rain this weekend, Jo!
Afraid so, Liesbet. It’s Summer, after all 🙂 🙂
lovely flowers!
Aren’t they gorgeous, Kathe? Hope you’re having a good Sunday. The rain just hit here 🙂
Gorgeous – perfect shots Jo! Have a wonderful week ahead.
Curvellicious Jo… (that got Google confused) Lovely little haiku too…
Thanks, Pauline. 🙂 The more we can confuse Google, the better!
Not often you can confuse Dr Google
Beautiful flower!
Have a nice Sunday! 🙂
I love it! 🙂 I’d like a garden full of them. Thanks- you too!
These are so gorgeous Jo. That inner color so rich and vibrant. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.
Thanks, Sue. Not bad. How about you? 🙂
Stunning photo Jo!
Thanks, darlin’. 🙂 Happy hols!
Warm hugs to you too, Jo. There is nothing better to lift the spirits than a beautiful flower xxxx
It’s the time of year for them here, even if the weather hasn’t quite caught on to the idea of Summer yet 🙂 Thanks, hon.
Oh, I love poppies and this one is gorgeous. I’ve never seen oriental poppies here. I must do some research and see if we can grow them. In the meantime, I will enjoy looking at yours, Jo.
Too warm for them? I’d love to live somewhere too warm for poppies 😦 But still have poppies, of course 🙂
I’ve grown Iceland poppies in the past, which are annuals. We probably can get orientals, I’ve never looked. I must do that asap. Now is the time to be planting for spring. It’s not that warm here today, only 18 degrees C. A bit chilly for us.
Gorgeous curvy image and the perfect haiku, Jo. 🙂
I thought a tango, oops sorry, tanka, might be more appropriate, Ad, but haiku are about my limit 🙂
Me too. 🙂 I can’t do the tango to save my life.
I bet you could! 🙂
Maybe if I had the right partner. Hubby isn’t a dancer at all, but he’s good at other things..,,,,,I mean like DIY etc. 😅
I have the same problem. Not so sure about the DIY though. Mine’s more of a bodger 🙂 🙂
A codger who’s a bodger isn’t so good. 😳
Hey! Don’t you be calling my old codger a codger. Outraged! 🙂 🙂
Well you called my old man “The Old Man.” 😅
Well he is 🙂 🙂 🙂 Relatively… Maybe a truce?
Oh okay………..I was quite enjoying our little spat, though. 👩❤️👩
We’ll do it again tomorrow 🙂
Here at last! And lovely to find oriental poppies (Perry’s White if I’m not mistaken), looking lovely and fresh in the raindrops. Aren’t they pretty? I love the blush pink of this one and how delicate it looks. I used these in my A-Z a couple of years ago. And a haiku too! Wonderful 😀
https://smallbluegreenflowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/o-is-for-oriental-poppy/
Oh, you’re worth waiting for 🙂 Planting all done and OH dropped off at the pub (or is that Fridays? 🙂 ) The sunshine finally got here about 3 this afternoon. Whoop ee doop! We don’t have a great track record with poppies. 😦 This one nods at me from someone’s front garden on a Saturday morning.
Planting done, another sack full of weeds and pruning. I have a very old jasmine which is totally out of control and the weight of it is dragging it down. I have pruned it quite a lot, but I think it needs cutting right back. Can you ask Mick what I should do with it? Lots of old wood.
Chop it right back. Mick says if you’re doubtful of its recovery, try ‘layering’. Presume you know what that is- I didn’t know the expression 🙂 Where you peg a few trailers into the soil and they will root and give you a new plant. When we had our fences done our winter flowering jasmine was trashed but it recovered and we now have several. 🙂 Mick says it grows like a weed.
Thank you both. I have done the layering thing with my winter jasmine as I was afraid the main plant wouldn’t survive the move. This summer flowering one has lots of rather thick stems and lots of new shoots. I’ll have a go at layering some of those and then hack it down in the autumn. See what happens!
Summer flowering doesn’t survive outdoors up here so, over to you! We’ll come and inspect next year. Mick’s good at weeding. 🙂
Beautiful haiku, beautiful curves and all the better for being moist 🙂
She was waving at me again this morning as I zipped past to zumba 🙂
“Northampton” — twenty lashes
I’d like it in my garden also, Jo. Except my thumb isn’t green enough to keep it growing.
🙂
We tend to have the same problem, Jim. This wasn’t in our own garden. We’re eagerly awaiting the performance of a poppy we bought recently. Who knows? 🙂
Sigh…beautiful!
Doing a bit of a fandango 🙂