Today’s Flowers: Alongside the Highway
December 7, 2008 | Filed Under Colors, Flowers, Photo Blogging Theme Day, Pink, Roses, Today's Flowers
Last week, as I passed along the highway on the East Side (I forget the name), I was surprised to see these beautiful, vibrant, pink flowers still in bloom. I have no idea what kind of flowers these are. Do you?
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Happy Monday, everyone!
Paz
Ed. Note: Thanks, everyone, for letting me know these are ROSES — wild roses. LOL! I thought I’d recognize a rose when I saw it. Apparently not. I simply did not expect to see roses on the side of the highway (the FDR Drive, by the way, I just remembered the name) at this time of year. The roses certainly looked beautiful there. I’m glad I was able to notice them and learn something new from you all.
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They look like roses to me and yes they are pretty.
Pretty in pink, such vibrant colour
pink color is always beautiful in my eyes, especially if it is roses, thanks for sharing..
believe that you have photographed some roses…
Lovely pink roses! The roses in my backyard grow almost like wild roses, but these are a prettier pink, with a touch of blue in them. See the thorns? Ouch.
What lovely roses!
What a wonderful find!
They look like a mini type rose! Very hardy this year right up to NOvember winds.
yep, you’ve found yourself some late blooming roses…always a nice treat this time of year…wouldn’t roses blooming under a fresh dusting of snow be lovely??
Beautiful roses!
How wonderful to find them beside the road. A touch of beauty so late in the year.
Yes, I think they are roses! Very fine sequence!
Yes, roses. Sometimes they hang on quite late in the year, especially if there has been no hard frost. Wonderful, is it not? December!
Lovely captures! Happy Monday
Marvellously and very beautiful variety of wild rose!
Seeing the bud in one of the photos, I think it must be wild roses. They are lovely. Good to have your camera at hand, where ever you go.
Gentle roses and shot.
So lovely
A rose in winter
sounds and looks amazingly pretty.
Yep, look like roses to me too! Astonishing – this time of the year.
Cheers, Klaus
Hi Darla: Thanks so much!
Hi M.Kate: Thanks! Yes, they are vibrant, which surprises me in the winter weather.
Hi Norm: Thank you! Pretty to my eyes, too.
Hi Erin: Thanks for the help. I can’t believe I couldn’t recognize a rose. LOL!
Hey there Leora: Thanks so much. Now that you point it out, I see the thorns. Yes, “Ouch!”
Hi Cathy: Yes, they are lovely, aren’t they. Caught my eye immediately.
Hey there, People with Cameras: Yes, a wonderful and unexpected find for me.
Hey NatureGirl: Thanks so much. I’ve learned something new from you all, today.
Hi Bettye: Late blooming roses on the side of the highway are definitely a treat for me. About the snow, that would look lovely, only if I’m home and don’t have to venture out in the snow.
Hello Carletta: Yes, beautiful, indeed. I really appreciated them.
Hey there, Pietro: Thank you!
Hey Sara: Wonderful, indeed. Almost magical.
Hi Yen: Thanks! Happy Monday to you, too!
Hi Kostas: Thanks!
Paz
Hi Birthday Boy aka Reader Will: Yes, it helps to have the camera with you at all times.
Oi Luiz: Thank you!
Hello Elizabeth: Very lovely, indeed. Talk to you soon.
Hi Klaus: Thanks for your help. I’m astonished that there are roses (or any other kind of flowers) still blooming around. It’s a wonderful surprise.
Welcome to the first-time visitors here!
HAPPY MONDAY, EVERYONE!
Paz
Paz: A little late in getting here but you capture some nice little red roses. I bet if you would have smelled them you would have recoginzed the sweetness of the rose.
Hi Fishing Guy: Thanks! I would like to think that I’d recognize its scent, if given a chance.
Glad you could make it here. Always nice to see you. I’m very late visiting everyone.
Paz
Amazing cerise colour on these beauties! Seeing roses, flowers, out of season like this always make me wee sad since I think they really ought to have gone into hibernation already and not persevere in the cold.
Lovely roses! and so many along a highway this time of year. Funny. The temperature must be just right for them to bloom.
Hi Pia: I know what you mean but I think they’ll be okay. That’s the wonder of nature.
Paz
Hi Carin: I guess at some time, the temperature was right for them but at the moment, it is freezing. Who knows. The weather can get erratic.
Thanks for stopping by, everyone!
Paz
Great shots of the wild roses. I’d would have been surprised, too. Roses are, obviously very hardy.
What a lovely bunch of wildness! I really like the last photo for its simplicity. . .nice post. Thanks! You made my day :O)
Those are certainly hardy little roses! My garden is now under 2 feet of snow!
Those are hardy roses, maybe they’re knockout roses (the kind I need to plant).
Happy Monday to you too!
How great that they were wild alongside the road like that. Nice shots.
Hi Jan: It’s nice to see that they can be hardy and survivors.
Hi Nonizamboni: Thank you! Glad you like it.
Hi Jennie: Two feet of snow!? Oh, wow!
Hi Rhonda: I imagine you have a nice garden. Thank you!
Hi 2Sweet: Thank you!
Best to all,
Paz