Flowers

A Rose is just a Rose..

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? — Maurice Maeterlinck.

These "rainbow roses" were created by Dutch flower company owner Peter van de Werken, who produced them by developing a technique for injecting natural pigments into their stems while they are growing to create the striking multi-colored petal effect:
The dyes are produced from natural plant extracts and are absorbed by the flowers as they grow.

I ask you. . . who is not awed by the beauty of a spring rose, fresh with dew, or the fresh appeal of a yellow buttercup, or the fiesta of colors in a bunch of gerberas (beautiful flowers, awful name!)

We've come to associate the germination and birth of a flower with life itself. We talk about children "blossoming", the "rosy red glow" of a pregnant woman or "happy as a rosebud in June". At the end of its brief but impressive life, most flowers return to the ground from whence they came, in much the same way as we humans do. Well, most of us.

I have just uploaded some new photo on the flower gallery. Please check them out!
I will be adding more on the other galleries. Stay tuned :)

http://www.elhaddad.net/album/flowers

Photographer: Björgvin Guðmundsson

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead". Oscar Wilde