Flowers and Flickr Friends Part 1

The summer heat is on but the lovely summer sunshine is my bonus.

The flowers kept in the corners of my home give me company in these lonely summer afternoons. Their bright colors and the gentle fragrance fills my heart with fond memories of my friends.

Friends who have stood by me in the difficult times. Friends who have shared the little joys and the sweet moments of my life. Friends who have been a shoulder to lean on when I needed them and friends who have parted ways to unknown lands....

Life is a garden

Good friends are the flowers,

And times spent together

Life's happiest hours . . .

And friendship, like flowers,

Blooms, ever more fair

When carefully tended

By dear friends who care . . .

And life's lovely garden

Would be sweet by far,

If all who passed through it

Were as nice as you are.

~Helen Steiner Rice

These lines sum up a lot of emotions. These benign floral beauties arranged on the center table of my home inspired me to start a project series focusing on flowers and my friends. So I asked my Flickr friends to send me snaps of the flowers at the corners of their homes. Soon my mail box was flooded with pretty pictures of lovely nooks and corners bedecked with flowers.

As a prelude to the series, here are some pictures of my Floral friends who've given me and my corners company and shared my ruminations and apprehensions in the summer afternoons. i miss them, my friends and as they say....

life's lovely garden would be sweet if all who passed through it were as nice as you are.

Hope you all enjoy this as I enjoyed them at my home.....

Pranam to the elephant god,Ganeshji, on the Pooja Mandap

Flowers from the park,bougainvillea,sparkles a corner in a steel glass

Memories and floating dreams,chrysanthemums floating on the centre table

gulmohar flowers on the centre table,morning light filtering in..

betel leaves floating,dont worry if you dont have flowers...

pinks and violets in the big kuja.

vinca rosea floating in a glass,face of peace

cosmos,summer colours and books

Gerberas and garden path

cannot leave behind this uruli and my fav hibiscus..

this pic is blurred,but i love this and the flowing amaltas

Bougainivilleas,beer bottles and swing..

Gladiolus and dining chairs and afternoon light

Some lilies and fruits on the dining table

Merry go round the mulberry bush

A single gulmohar can also be appealing ,isnt it

a single rose and a book..

Enjoy and look out for the rest of the posts in the series clicked with love and passion by my dear Flick friends.

Write back to me and tell me about my flowers at my corners.

Images and Ideas Conceived by Lakshmi Arvind

Pl dont steal them