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From my garden:the summer colors

by uropinin, May 31, 2009 23:20

Its hot outside. How hot? Its hard to describe really.The newspapers continue to show the temperature in the high thirties but outside it feels like 50 atleast.Its a furnace out there.

The birds, that I feed each morning, do not come down from the tree if I arrive any later than 6.30 A.M. The leaves of the trees look pale and listless and one day of missing the watering results in the quick demise of all but the hardiest plants...

The expatriate laborers,mostly from the sub continent, toil outside still.Not for them the luxury of retreating to shade. They continue to dig, pour concrete, clean roads and do the zillion other tasks they do to keep the Gulf countries running and their own families fed back home.

Its been a hard summer, personally too, but a quick tour of the garden reminds one of the resilience of nature and the need to strive on and put one's best effort into everything...no matter what the circumstances.

When everything looks jaded and scorched, Zinnia blooms and how !! Have a look.

This yellow beauty seems to test the brilliance of the sunshine



                                                And combines with orange to challenge the heat



Then there is the pristine white in between to calm things down.

 


My personal favorite is this color that seems to try and strike a balance between the fiery orange/yellows/reds and the cool whites



The red is, mercifully, growing near the white and not the show-offy yellows and oranges.
 
When the wind is strong they embrace
 

And when, after nearly 7 days of putting on a spectacular show, the heat finally begins to take its toll these resilient beauties still manage to take a final beautiful bow.
 
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Total Comments : 8
ellen says: 
Gorgeous blooms! They tell us how to live, don't they?
-- with resilience, strength, color. It speaks of life. :-)
June 1, 13:01 PM 
nice !
June 1, 14:55 PM
Busybee says: 
Lovely !! :-)  I liked the yellow and magenta ones.. Amazing that these plants survive in a desert..
June 1, 20:48 PM
uropinin says: 
Yes,BB.In parts of the land one can create magic with water and some soil enhancement.
I actually missed the opp to click the really huge blooms.This is the second lot......slightly smaller.
June 1, 22:08 PM
uropinin says: 
ellen, you are so right.There is always a lesson for us in nature.....if we choose to heed it,we will always benefit.
June 1, 22:11 PM
Nandanan says: 
This year HE has released the original version of summer which was missing since some 15 years in the gulf. I think this time we will have the original or even the deluxe version of monsoon in the sub-continent. Beware, the vacationers!
June 1, 23:07 PM 
Someone please reassure Ellen that some of us humans are as much resilient and strong like the Zinnia in this garden. Uro, count me amidst those expatriate labor from the subcontinent, braving the heat, dust, wind, sun and storm. My only regret is that we colorless unlike those blooms..:D
June 1, 23:25 PM
uropinin says: 
LP,hope you have some reprieve and shade from laboring outside :)
June 2, 23:05 PM
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