The beauty of blossoming plants

[version]

both those things are true. it means a lot more with every passing year and you're more and more aware of how much each winter has cost you.

You can start counting how many more winters you're likely to see.

 

[Corpsey]

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

 

[0bleak]

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@kid charlemagne break em off somethin

sentiment best expressed in the 1988 hit song by hair band, Poison

 

[0bleak]

You can start counting how many more winters you're likely to see.

just lay off the counting crows, PLEASE

 

[Corpsey]

Why did you laugh at my poem @luka

 

[dilbert1]

Loving this pansy thread guys

 

[Corpsey]

🌷😡😤🌷

 

[dilbert1]

 

[dilbert1]

 

[DLaurent]

Lakes starting to look greener with reeds having some colour, taken yesterday during the so called blue hour. Does it stir the soul? Not really, but at least it's not giant hogweed.

 

[WashYourHands]

Part of the beauty with flowers is how much human interaction has played with their genetics, their blooms, fragrances

You see a significant spring bloom in Britain (not grim for argument’s sake), daffs, crocuses, first roses of the year and, chances are, people helped shape their futures

Wild flower meadows in early summer or late September, not to get all pastorally effected, can stun the eye just not many wild flower meadows left

And maybe as you get older and more conscious of mortality you are more cheered and even thrilled by these sproutings of life and beauty

And maybe winters get more depressing?

 

[yyaldrin]

some spring snapshots from berlin. I'm always shocked how beautiful it can be here considering how apocalyptic it looks during winter

 

[other_life]

oh goodness the cherry blossoms

 

[other_life]

no pic private moment

 

[dilbert1]

Round my parts today

 

[dilbert1]

Looks a bit like some of your parts, no?

 

[0bleak]

um, my parts are called private parts for a reason

 

[sufi]

Lakes starting to look greener with reeds having some colour, taken yesterday during the so called blue hour. Does it stir the soul? Not really, but at least it's not giant hogweed.

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yeah giant hogweed is nasty

 

[Corpsey]

yeah giant hogweed is nasty

That's what I call my penis am I right lads

 

[sufi]

That's what I call my penis am I right lads

the sap of giant hogweed can cause burns. It contains furocoumarin, which makes skin extremely sensitive to sunlight (phytophotodermatitis).
If the sap gets onto your skin and it's then exposed to the sun, your skin can blister badly. Blistering can then recur over months and even years.
This is known as phytotoxicity.