Flowers

Mayapple Brownfield woods, Urbana, Illinois photo details: Canon 17-40x wide angle lens on a Canon EOS 50D ISO 400, 1/30 sec, f/7.1, leaf backlit with handheld 550ex strobe.
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Manhattan Roses. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Image: GrrlScientist, 4 May 2009 [larger view]. These roses are deep red on the inside and cream-colored on the outside. I find the color combination interesting, even though I am not sure if I like these roses.
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Still Life, 2. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Image: GrrlScientist, 4 May 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Pink Flower (Detail). Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Image: GrrlScientist, 4 May 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Fields of Gold. "In the lower 80s" in the Park Avenue median (Upper East Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 26 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Pink Carnation. Photographed on the Upper Wast Side of Manhattan. Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Still Life with Red Roses. Photographed on the Upper Wast Side of Manhattan. Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Violet in the Park Avenue median, Manhattan. "In the lower 80s" in the Park Avenue median (Upper East Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 26 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Park Avenue Tulip. "In the lower 80s" in the Park Avenue median (Upper East Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 26 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Cherry Blossoms. "In the lower 80s" in the Park Avenue median (Upper East Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 26 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Median. 83rd and Park Avenue (Upper East Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 26 April 2009 [larger view]. In the wee hours of Saturday, the temperature was somewhere close to 38 degrees Fahrenheit at my apartment, then, hours later, it reached 88 degrees -- a 50 degree difference! Today, it is predicted to reach 90 degrees in Manhattan, so I had to celebrate by roaming around the Park Avenue median on the Upper East Side, photographing the blossoms.
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Rose. 83rd and Amsterdam Avenue (Upper West Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view]. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." -- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2).
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Rose. 83rd and Amsterdam Avenue (Upper West Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view]. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." -- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2).
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis. 124th and Broadway (Harlem) in Manhattan. Image: GrrlScientist, 21 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Buttercup, Ranunculus sceleratus. 124th and Broadway (Harlem) in Manhattan. Image: GrrlScientist, 21 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day A friendly face in Manhattan. West 79th Street between Amsterdam and Broadway Aves; UWS, Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 19 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Blossoms, UWS, Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Blossoms, UWS, Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view]. When the camera shutter clicked to get this picture, I thought of the impressive body of work produced by one of my favorite painters, Henri Fantin-Latour.
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature Flowers, photographed on the UWS, Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature Peach Roses, photographed on the UWS, Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view].