Caged/Monday Mellow Yellows

"What do you fear, lady?" Aragorn asked.

"A cage," Eowyn said.  "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."

~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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Thunbergia Mysorensis

Clock Vine, Thunbergia mysorensis, Thunbergia Andreson x Bedd

A stunning flowering vine originating from India.

The bright yellow/maroon flowers were hanging in clusters from a pergola at a friend's garden. 

In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there.  To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breath.  I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels. ~ Dodinsky

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Yellow summer flowers

We're in the middle of summer and the scorching heat can be unbearable.  But these yellow flowers look fresh under the mid-day sun while everybody was sluggish and wilting in the heat.  Not sure if this is justicia aurea/yellow jacobinia.

The yellow jacobinias basking in the summer sun together with lantanas and blue plumbago.

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." ~ Joseph Addison

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False Sunflower

Noticed these showy flowers growing wildly at the roadside near the convenience store I frequent.   The flowers look similar to False Sunflower, Smooth Oxeye,  Heliopsis helianthoides, a species in the Aster family.  It looks like this plant has mastered every survival skill.

I learn more about God

from weeds than from roses;

Resilience springing

through the smallest chink of hope

in the absolute of concrete...

~ Phillip Pulfrey

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Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty, also known as Creeping Wood Sorrel and Jeepers Creepers are durable perennial plants.  Their low spreading habit makes them ideal for use as a ground-cover, lawn substitute, pathway or edging plant. Some types will even tolerate foot traffic!  A diminutive, spreading ground-cover, blooms all-year round and makes a superb plant in humus rich soils.

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” ~ Suzanne Collins

 

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Yellow Lantana/Monday Mellow Yellows

A bright and cheerful Lantana to start your week right.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.” ~ John Barrowman

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Yellow Climber

I was waiting for my friend near the entrance of the supermarket while she was paying her bills and I was getting bored.  I have already demolished a cup of buttered corn kernels, yogurt and was munching on crisp slices of fresh papaya when I noticed this pretty, cheery climber at the flower shop.  I asked the clerk what this flowering vine was called but he was clueless.

I also searched on line but nothing looked similar from flower catalogs.  I hope somebody can identify this flowering vine.

"And, in the end

The love you take

is equal to the love you make."

~ Paul McCartney

 

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Yellow Creeper

 Spotted this pale yellow creeper at the river bank. 

“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”  ~ Rumi

 

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Yellow Hibiscus

I have been stalking my mother's hibiscus since the first bud started to show in late November.  Because the buds were in peach, I was expecting a peach-colored hibiscus.

I was pleasantly surprised when it bloomed into a lovely shade of lemon yellow. 

“Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again.

Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence---

a surprise.” ~ Vera Nazarian

 “One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!” 

~ C. JoyBell C.

 

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Yellow Gumamela

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. ~ John Lennon

Be grateful for and celebrate the beauty in all things because beauty is everywhere; and ignore all limitations and boundaries wherever they are found, because they are illusion. ~ David Sanders

I think over again my small adventures,
my fears, those small ones that seemed so big,
all those vital things I had to get and to reach,
and yet there is only one great thing:
to live and see the great day that dawns,
and the light that fills the world.

~ Innuit Traditional Song

Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life. ~ Edward Hays

 

 

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Yellow Caballero

Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Dwarf Poinciana, Caballero

 I have posted the red/orange variety here and the pink here.  I found yellow ones, too.  

"Time doesn't always heal:  it just breathes and swallows memories like the seasons change---sending showers; beating flowers into the mud.  And nothing is forever in this place.  Nothing but the way my heart fits in your hands; the held breath of hope."

 

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