We had to take a steep staircase to get down to the beach. Either side of the stairs was lined with plants and flowers, including this one.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Cannon Beach Magic - Flowers
Cannon Beach Magic - Flowers
Flowers everywhere! Cannon Beach flowers add to the magic. The joy of the color and fragrance is something to experience.
Flowers everywhere! Cannon Beach flowers add to the magic. The joy of the color and fragrance is something to experience.
Cannon Beach Magic - Flowers
Cannon Beach Magic - Flowers
Flowers everywhere! Cannon Beach flowers add to the magic. The joy of the color and fragrance is something to experience.
Flowers everywhere! Cannon Beach flowers add to the magic. The joy of the color and fragrance is something to experience.
Cannon Beach Magic - Flowers
Cannon Beach Magic - Flowers
Flowers everywhere! Cannon Beach flowers add to the magic. The joy of the color and fragrance is something to experience.
Flowers everywhere! Cannon Beach flowers add to the magic. The joy of the color and fragrance is something to experience.
Cannon Beach Magic - Flowers
Cannon Beach Magic - Flowers
Flowers everywhere! Cannon Beach flowers add to the magic. The joy of the color and fragrance is something to experience.
Flowers everywhere! Cannon Beach flowers add to the magic. The joy of the color and fragrance is something to experience.
Beach flower, Apple Tree Bay, New Zealand
Flower on the beach, Apple Tree Bay, Able Tasman Trail, New Zealand
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Beach Flowers
This flowering bush lined the beach side in High Rock, Grand Bahama Island. I have no idea what it's called, but it sure added beautiful contrast against the beach.
Wandering Beach Flower
The vines containing these lovely pink flowers wander across the beach and provide shade to some of the beach creatures.
PURPLE BEACH FLOWER OF GUADELOUPE
This beautiful little white and purple flower grows on the beaches of guadeloupe. The tree is named "Arbre de Soie".
Beach Flower
Beach Flower in front of the Sewage Treatment Works.
This photo is a 3D Stereoscopic red/cyan anaglyph. This means that if you view it through red (left eye) and cyan (right eye) tinted glasses the image appears to be three dimensional.
This photo is a 3D Stereoscopic red/cyan anaglyph. This means that if you view it through red (left eye) and cyan (right eye) tinted glasses the image appears to be three dimensional.
Beach Flowers
Taken at one of the stops along the 17 Mile Drive, a scenic road between Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach, CA. Most of it runs along the coastline, passing mansions and famous golf courses. There are turnouts to stop, take photos, picnic or walk along the oceanside.
One of the things we noticed on this trip was the abundance of flowers - everywhere!
One of the things we noticed on this trip was the abundance of flowers - everywhere!
Beach Flower
I found this flower on the beach in a sea oat bed. I haven't a clue to what type it is. It grows on a vine?? I used a 100mm f/2.8 @ ISO-400, f/9, 1/250sec., 0step.
Beach Flower
Small flower on the beach near the Pilot Pier, Hartlepool (sometimes called the Hartlepool Headland or Old Hartlepool)
flower of Beach Naupaka (half-flower) "magoo"
Botanical Name: Scaevola sericea.
Scaevola sericea is sometimes called half-flower.
Naupaka blossoms are not incomplete, they appear to be only half a flower because all the petals are on one side.
The flowers are white or cream colored, often with purple streaks.They have an irregular shape with all all five petals on one side of the flower making them appear to have been torn in half.
There are two types of naupaka.
Mountain naupaka evolved from beach naupaka. Beach naupaka is indigenous to Hawaii and throughout the tropical and subtropical zones of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
There are several Hawaiian legends that tell the origin of the beach and mountain forms of naupaka, both of which produce these unusual half-flowers.
**The Legend of Naupaka**
In one version:
A princess was forbidden to marry her true love, a fisherman, because he was a commoner. As they parted ways forever, she tore a flower in half, giving one half to him and keeping the other half for herself. She then returned to the mountains where her family lived. Broken-hearted, they both cried and planted their halves of the flower. Each half grew and became the two forms of naupaka – the beach naupaka (naupaka kahakai) and the mountain naupaka (naupaka kuahiwi).
Another version:
It is said that two lovers, greatly devoted to each other, came to the attention of the Goddess Pele. Pele found the young man desirable and appeared before him as a beautiful stranger. But no matter what Pele did the lovers remained devoted to each other.
Angered, Pele chased the young man into the mountains, throwing molten lava at him. Pele's sisters witnessed this and to save the young man from a certain death they changed him into the mountain Naupaka. Pele immediately went after the young woman and chased her towards the sea - but again Pele's sisters stepped in and changed the young lover into beach Naupaka.
It is said that if the mountain Naupaka and beach Naupaka flowers are reunited, the two young lovers will be together again.
Scaevola sericea is sometimes called half-flower.
Naupaka blossoms are not incomplete, they appear to be only half a flower because all the petals are on one side.
The flowers are white or cream colored, often with purple streaks.They have an irregular shape with all all five petals on one side of the flower making them appear to have been torn in half.
There are two types of naupaka.
Mountain naupaka evolved from beach naupaka. Beach naupaka is indigenous to Hawaii and throughout the tropical and subtropical zones of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
There are several Hawaiian legends that tell the origin of the beach and mountain forms of naupaka, both of which produce these unusual half-flowers.
**The Legend of Naupaka**
In one version:
A princess was forbidden to marry her true love, a fisherman, because he was a commoner. As they parted ways forever, she tore a flower in half, giving one half to him and keeping the other half for herself. She then returned to the mountains where her family lived. Broken-hearted, they both cried and planted their halves of the flower. Each half grew and became the two forms of naupaka – the beach naupaka (naupaka kahakai) and the mountain naupaka (naupaka kuahiwi).
Another version:
It is said that two lovers, greatly devoted to each other, came to the attention of the Goddess Pele. Pele found the young man desirable and appeared before him as a beautiful stranger. But no matter what Pele did the lovers remained devoted to each other.
Angered, Pele chased the young man into the mountains, throwing molten lava at him. Pele's sisters witnessed this and to save the young man from a certain death they changed him into the mountain Naupaka. Pele immediately went after the young woman and chased her towards the sea - but again Pele's sisters stepped in and changed the young lover into beach Naupaka.
It is said that if the mountain Naupaka and beach Naupaka flowers are reunited, the two young lovers will be together again.
Pretty Beach Flower
I saw this pretty flower along the beach at Damon Point. I couldn't find it in my flower book, so I'm not sure what kind it is. I just thought the splash of color was pretty!
Anyone know what it's called?
Ocean Shores, WA - July 2007
Anyone know what it's called?
Ocean Shores, WA - July 2007
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