Summer flowers from dark pink to pale green just like a rainbow Summer flowers from field to forest celebrating summer
Summer flowers
Tag: Close up
Holly blue
Celastrina argiolus or holly blue is a common butterfly during spring in Norway (May to June). In Norway we call it “blåvinge” which means “blue wing” in English.
In the shot below the butterfly is resting on heather. I have always wondered why the English name on these beautiful insects is “butterfly”. Somewhere I once read that it originally was named “flutter by” but as it could be difficult to pronounce “flutter by” the right way it developed to be “butterfly” in stead. Can this be right? It is reasonable as “flutter by” is kind of an easy description of the movements of this beautiful insect. Does anyone know if this is right? Please feel free to comment below 🙂
In Norway we say “sommerfugl” which in English means “bird of summer”.
Forget me not
Such a strange name for a little flower how can one forget this little beauty shining like little blue pearls sprinkled over the green fields of summer
Light as a feather
Light as a feather a dandelion pappus floats like a tiny parachute carried far away by the light summer breeze were will the journey end
Curled up
Amazing fern all curled up protecting all its leaves in a swirl Beautiful fern all leaves unfolded showing its true beauty like a fan
Viola tricolor
When reading about this common wild flower on Wikipedia I found that this plant has lots of different names:
- wild pansy
- Jonny Jump up (also the name of yellow pansy)
- hearts ease
- hearts delight
- tickle-my-fancy
- Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me
- come-and-cuddle-me
- three faces in a hood
- love-in-idleness
- pink of my john
Why all these different names I don’t know, these names was listed in the English translation of Wikipedia. In Norway the common name for these flowers is “night-and-day” or “flower of the stepmother”. I think the Latin name, Viola tricolor, suits this beautiful flower best.
Forest moments
Every time I walk through the forest a new impression catch my eye Hunting details a budding flower funny mushrooms maybe a little frog never boring Every time I walk through the forest a new precious forest moment awaits
Sun beams
Fern leaves all dried out faded beauty sun beams through the dry leaves shows bygone beauty
Sound of spring
Walking through the woods as many times before Something is different Winter cold and quiet has finally left Sound of spring Birds chattering all around such a happy feeling
Anemone hepatica (pink edition)
Spring is here and the first flowers are blooming here in Norway. Today I took a walk by the seaside along the Oslo fjord and found a lot of Anemone hepatica in the forest. The color of the flowers varies from white, all shades of blue to pink. The color variation is both due toe variation in the soil and genetics. Todays shot is of the pink variant of the flower.
Anne Floa 