I saw a melon, I picked a melon, I almost ate a melon. Before I could dig in I had the urge to take a photo of my melon with my melon coloured flowers. Why? What sort of kitten-hating, fire-breather wouldn't if they could?
I did eventually get to eat the melon and it was like eating sweetened sunshine. Melons are one of the few things that I grow because it actually tastes so much better than ones you get in the store.
Ditto for black beans. I know. Who knew something as boring as a black bean could pull something like that off.
I will be at the Hamilton Dahlia Society Show taking place at The Royal Botanical Gardens on Saturday taking photos of the winners and the event for them because I grew up to be a member of a garden society not Billy Idol's wife.
If you're local and you love flowers you will be alarmed at the amount of floral beauty you've been missing your whole life. I just got back from taking a few photos of them setting up for the show and the dahlias are nuts.
Several are the size of a throw pillow.
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We'll email you this post, so you can refer to it later.
But the best part about the dahlia show is all the members of the dahlia society bring their blooms and we sell bouquets at the show. And they're cheap. These are just some of the flowers that'll be made into bouquets that people who come to the show can buy.
Of course, I had to make the photo into a puzzle, so good luck to you all who attempt it.
In today's puzzle we have a muskmelon, a couple of tomatoes, Floret zinnias, dahlias, bells of Ireland, sungold tomatoes and .... ? That indicates there's one more food item in there. Which I assume you can see right away, but let's pretend it's difficult.
Have a good weekend!
Hettie
A very pretty picture indeed! My veggie garden is full of flowers too. Some lovely dahlias, but mostly sunflowers, zinnias, and cosmos. Going out there is so ahhh...
Karen
I agree. Very ahhhh. ~ karen!
Linda in illinois
Love the intermix of tomatoes with the flowers. Beautiful!!
Andrea
Wow, what beautiful photos in the post!! I grew dahlias because of you for a few years, but man are they a lot of work.
Beth Sheehan
Muskmelon!!! I haven’t heard that word in years! Now, is this what we call a cantaloupe? Or is it a separate variety? LOVED the picture. Beautiful colors! Almost like our smoke-laden sunsets…😬
Debbie Gale
A Masterpiece, Karen! 😻sending a picture of my fav.
Mary W
I forgot to ask, what was the name of the bloom - starting from the bottom, first ones on the right side coming out of the square tub. It is MAGIC.
Karen
Hi Mary. If you're talking about the one that's very bright with large petals, it looks like Pam Howden. ~ karen!
Mary W
That was not only fun, challenging and pretty, it was slightly evil. It didn't open in normal jigity, so I could only see a portion of the pieces at one time and had to solve it from top down and keep moving the pieces up and down to solve - but I did it. I was determined to solve it since I thought perhaps, just maybe, Karen had found a way to watch us as we tried to out-manuever her newest diabolical toy. Hardest one I ever did but kept sticking my tongue out to show her - she didn't fool me!
Ann
Made me laugh out loud with Meloncauli. Thank you, I needed that! Love your sense of humor.
sondra
That was truly a groaner of a pun. Keep 'em up. Yeah, Karen !!!
Rhonda
Oh my, such a beautiful puzzle for this gloomy morning. Promise me you will post one in the dark dull days of winter so we can once again the glory of these flowers!
Elaine
Nothing better than a dahlia show. Hope you are planning on sharing some photos of the gorgeous entrants. The flower buckets look impressive. Your melon photo looks lovely. Too bad you couldn't eat the flowers too. LOL
Carolyn
That is a gorgeous photo, I agree with the previous poster, glorious and definitely contest worthy.
Meloncauli, ha!
So, please elaborate on your black bean comment in your post...?
Sue McK.
Karen…that photo DEFINITELY should be entered in some photo contest, somewhere! It was (almost)the first thing my eyes saw this new day & what a glorious thing to see to begin another day❣️What a work of art! Woo.
Nina
A fun puzzle!