Seen at Schreiner's Iris Gardens - No. 7 - Poppies and Peonies

Orange poppies with lots of petals.



Delicate pink color. Were they poppies? Were they poppies? I didn't walk around to the other side to find out for sure.



Robust red poppies.



Red poppies with lots of petals.



Is this peony pale pink? Pale orange? I believe it's a lovely tone of the two of them at their most pale.



Another lovely combination of color in these peonies.



I tried to get creative here with the three blossoms from the photo above and focus on the one in the center--this is straight out of the camera--but there's too much of that out-of-focus bloom on the left, in my opinion. I'm not taking the time to crop it. Should I have done that?



Every time I look at this lovely pink peony, I'm amazed that these are flower petals, not feathers!



Another lovely pink peony from the same plant.



There's fire in this beautiful poppy.



This beautiful poppy reminds me of Crayola Crayons.



There's a teensy tiny, big-eyed fly on the poppy in the center. Wow.

Seen on this morning's walk, more natural beauty

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Right after 7 a.m. this morning, I pulled on a long-sleeved T-shirt, some pants, socks and my Crocs, then finished off with a fleece vest which I zipped up to my neck--it's cool today, 50 degrees and a bit of a breeze while I was out. I crossed the street and headed for the parking lot behind Albertina Kerr, a large level space, empty this early which means I can make loops or crisscross it easily. In a parking strip on the paved lot behind Albertina Kerr, I found this blooming peony.



The different petal edges on each blossom fascinate me.



I'm glad that I took a photo at a perspective which shows you the back of Albertina Kerr. I took these photos with my iPhone 5 beneath overcast skies.



An amazing red rhododendron blooms in the southwest corner of the parking lot, right where there's a short sloping driveway out onto NE Flanders.



These two rhodies provide privacy for the entrances to this duplex on NE Flanders.

Schreiner's Iris Gardens, Memorial Day 2014, No. 2

Some sort of peony, one of the first flowers I photographed after eating lunch. Amazing to me that a single flower contains such rounded and sharp petals of this size. Not that I know much about peonies, just that I think they're pretty.