Mediterranean

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” .  (Robert Henri).  ……  .. This is the winter sea, in Sardinia in Valledoria.In front of him you can think anything you want.   .     .    Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved

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Sardinia (Italy)

“A voyage over an emerald sea, past characteristic coves and beaches of snowwhite sand … this is Sardinia, an island that strikes its visitors with natural contrasts, the lights and colors of a region that boasts old traditions and a wild and pure nature. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Sardinia is a mainly mountainous region, without high peaks, with a vast and charming, yet bittersweet, natural environment. In fact, the presence of man does not seem to affect this territory; great surfaces still preserve their natural composition, luxuriant woods with even millenary trees, small desert areas and marshes inhabited by deer, wild horses and rapacious birds. ….source  http://www.italia.it/en/discover-italy/sardinia.html

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Christmas Cactus

Christmas Cactus.   .   A beautiful plant (botanically known as Schlumbergera or Zygocactus), the Christmas Cactus blooms at Christmas. The Christmas cactus is my favorite houseplant, they’re long-lived, rather easy plants to grow…With white flowers, pink or red …. but always very generous blooms, I like to collect this plant.   .                                          This is red, red Christmas …Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved

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Blue Flowes

This flower, very special for color and form, is called “Tradescantia” a genus of 75 species of herbaceous perennial plants. Native to the New World they were introduced into Europe as ornamental plants in the seventeenth century.Very easy to grow in Italy is also known as “grass misery.” Very simple but very special!Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved

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Jacaranda

Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Central America, South America, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and the Bahamas.Several species are widely grown as ornamental plants throughout the subtropical regions of the world, valued for their intense flower displays.In my city, Cagliari (Italy), there are many examples of this remarkable plant . This is a plant that I photographed in full bloom in late May. Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved

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“A tulip….

Marianna Williamson says that“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower”I totally agree … it is a very simple and elegant flower. Each flower is unique … as people.Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved

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Reds

“Some women feel the need to act like they’re never scared, needy or hurt; like they’re as hardened as a man. I think that’s dishonest. It’s ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn’t a rose at all.” ( Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading )Photo ©BrendaC.

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