Couple of weeks back, on a weekend, I was taking an after lunch walk with my wife around our neighborhood. The day was sunny and bright but cool. Our dog Skooby was with us. Whenever he goes out with both of us he becomes super excited. As a result our walks become leisurely because he has to stop everywhere trying to take in all the smells that nature presents. This particular day I was rewarded for my patience with Skooby. As we were taking a turn on the road towards our home, my eyes were dazzled with the sight of blooming flowers bathed in sunlight. It was just one tree among few other non-descript trees near a creek. Behind the creek there was a small meadow with tall grass. I could hardly see any leaf on the tree. Whole tree, from top to bottom, was just covered in dazzlingly bright flowers. Sunlight was quite strong and it was difficult for me to get a photo with enough contrast of the whole tree with my cell phone. So I had to be satisfied with a zoomed in shot of the flowers. I had no idea what those flowers were. My knowledge about flowers are minimal. So I had to use Google lens to identify what it was called. Empress tree or one of the members of the paulownia family. If any of my readers can identify it clearly and update, it will be much appreciated.
Dazzling jewels
Bathed in sunlight
Fit to adorn a regina
Empress of the wild
* The name Empress Tree or Paulownia was found using Google lens.
Fleeting Muse 
Keep up the walking, picture taking, posting, and writing. I’m enjoying the beauty. Isn’t it odd how I love to look at flower pictures when a blogger posts, but I never just go to pretty flower pictures to look? I like to know the creator – well maybe not the creator of the flower but the creator of the picture.
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You mean to say till now you don’t know the creator of the pictures🙄.
We are blessed to be in an area where nature has shared her beauties with open hand. But I also have a healthy respect for nature. Dangers lurk just beneath the surface. I was here in 1989 when the big one hit. Last few years the fires had shown the destructive side of nature when we forgot to take care of her. This year the whole world was shown who is the more powerful. Someone had sent a social media post today calculating the weight of the virus that brought us to our knees. Not sure if that is true. Will you believe it if I say that the total weight of the virus to infect all the people who were exposed to it is barely one gram. Just imagine.
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Beautiful! My thanks to Skooby for pointing you in the right direction, and to you, for taking the photo. 🙂
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😀😀
Thanks Joan
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