Red Hibiscus

I took this photo just before dusk at the Sheraton Black Rock on Ka'anapali Beach. A texture by Shadowhouse Creations was added.

Muted Rose

Textures by boccacino and Shadowhouse Creations laid over the image of a dried rose.

Sunny

Another photo of one of our backyard sunflowers with textures by boccacino and ruby blossom.

Windowsill

This is a redo of an image I did awhile back. I wanted to try a grunge texture and isolate the main areas of interest.
Textures by Ellenvd and Shadowhouse Creations.

Bashful

With apologies to Betty for showing another sunflower image, this is one of the last sunflowers from our early summer garden.
Bokeh texture by Paree Erica.

Bee on Sunflower

There are dozens of these pollen gathering bees on our sunflowers, and they are amazingly tolerant of us while we are poking around the plants.
Texture from Shadowhouse Creations.

Three Sisters

Photo by John Nunley

This photo is from John's most recent progress photos of our backyard sunflowers. These three flowers are from the same plant, hence "sisters."
Textures by Shadowhouse Creations and Paree Erica.

Cordia Blooms

This bright cluster of flowers caught my eye while driving around Grenada. I believe it's called Cordia or Geiger Tree flower.
Textures by Shadowhouse Creations

Fading Fast

The heat is having an effect on our sunflowers and they're beginning to wilt.
Gold texture by jodi dog ma

Sundrenched

We have lots of sunflowers blooming in the yard now and I'm fascinated by all the different colors, sizes and clusters of blooms. This started off as a contrasty photo I took a couple of mornings ago, then I decided to add a texture from rubyblossom.

Ants on Chitalpa Blooms

This was taken in our back yard before our lovely chitalpa tree succumbed to the blistering Phoenix summer. I've added textures from Shadowhouse Creations and french kiss textures.

Pink Blossoms

I took this photo in the Botanical Building at Balboa Park in San Diego. When you live in Phoenix, San Diego is a wonderful place for a summer escape and we've been known to fly there and back for a quick day trip. You can take public transportation to a variety of places right from the airport if you don't want to bother renting a car.

I don't recall what these flowers are, but I loved the way they cascaded gracefully over the leaves. I've added a couple of textures which darkened up the background for emphasis.