Cherry blossom. Image: Su Leslie 2019
A broken branch has found a temporary home indoors where I can still enjoy the flowers, even as they fade. I love how their colour has intensified, and the petals look like dancers’ skirts.
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Zimmerbitch 
EVERY GOOD THING IN LIFE HAS A PRICE SUE, GREAT PHOTOGRAPH, CHINA
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Thank you
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Thanks for the lovely picture, Su! Sometimes in the spring, I have taken a broken cherry branch not yet in blossoms into the house and put in a vase. It was a wonderful experience to see its blossoms a few weeks early. Have a great week, Su!
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Thanks Peter. Wishing you a lovely week — and a belated Happy Thanksgiving
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Humpf! From the title I thought it was going to be a photo of me! Bwaahhhhhhhhh!!! 🙂 Lovely shot as always, Su.
janet
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😂😂
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Sweetly engaging.
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Thanks Sally
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They do look like dancers’ skirts, great photo Su.
Leslie
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Thanks Leslie 🙏
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Thanks Leslie
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The purple on green, the title, 😛 beautiful.
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Glad you like it 🙏
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Ageing with SERIOUS style, Su!
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🙂
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Beautiful, Su. I especially like that the blossoms are past their prime. The texture is more interesting.
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That’s something I too enjoy tremendously. I try to see a connecting line between fading flowers and my own fading ‘what’s that called again?’….. The latest flowers, nearly dead already, have this transparent, transluscient glow, faded colours, tired pink often, I so love. Just like me, you see?! 😉
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I can see the dancers! Not only their skirts – the stem of the flowers are the lithe figures of prima ballerinas! 😄 Now we only need to fix tiny clay heads to them! 😄Or turn them into earrings like we talked about it on IG. 😉
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😀😀 I’ve been thinking about the earring idea and wondering if it’s possible to stiffen and crinkle bits of fabric small enough. Adding heads is a good idea — and you’ve reminded me of a pendant I bought at a market a few years ago. I’ll have to go and see how it’s made. xxxx
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That sounds quite promising I think, the stiffening and crinkling of fabric! Maybe some sort of acrylic lacquer that dries matt? I’m eager to see what you will come up with! 😀 xxxxx
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