Driving through Quabbin Park, I noticed a large patch of purple by the side of the road, parked, and walked to the spot where dozens of Viola pedata were growing. I love the shape of these flowers and the variety of blue/violet hues the petals take.
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These are very beautiful flowers! A native plant for you?
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They are my violet faves and are native as well, Liz.
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They wore blue-violet.
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We just saw an infomercial for the music of “our teens” and this was one of the songs.Neither of us was moved to purchase.
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I have a couple of CD compilations of songs from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Great is also the purple colour of your violets. I know how hard it is to capture it with your camera. Have a great weekend, Steve!
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Thanks, Peter. Lightroom makes it a little easier to get the color right and these are fairly variable as well which makes it a bit easier to achieve faithfulness.I hope you are having a nice weekend, Peter. So far so good here.
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This is lovely. The name brought to mind another plant: Birdsfoot trefoil — not native, but quite pretty. The little white accent is a nice complement to the lavender/blue/violet color.
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It is a lovely violet, my mother’s middle name which she loathed. I wonder if my fondness for them was youthful rebelliousness. The white enhances the directional hints that say come pollinate me. I love the orange stamens. I’ve seen Birdfoot Trefoil but haven’t photographed it.
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Gorgeous!
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Thanks, Eliza!
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Lovely photo, particularly love purple flowers. As stupid as this going to sound purple flowers seem to thrive more in our garden than any other colour of flower.
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Thanks, Ryan. No, not stupid. Must be something in the soil that encourages those plants more than your others.
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Lovely photo!
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Thank you, Deepa!
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How lovely. I am not sure I’d have realised it was a violet.
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The leaves are not at all violetish. It is a lovely flower and I look forward to seeing them every year.
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That’s quite a cluster. Do you often find them clustered like that versus spaced out more as individuals? I love finding flowers that do group together, makes for some very colorful photos, like this one. Really nice.
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I do find them in clusters. In this case I singled this one out from quite a large number of them. I am sure there were at least a hundred flowers spread out at this spot. The whole patch didn’t photograph well but these groups did. Thanks, Todd.
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Very nice & very colorful Steve! Enjoyed seeing them!
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Thanks, Reed!
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Yes, a great little species….all the wild violets are…don’t they make you smile?
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Yes they do. These especially. They seem to smile back at you. 🙂
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