{"id":1262,"date":"2009-06-05T22:53:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T22:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2010-07-24T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T20:17:22","slug":"fridays-for-contemplation-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s for contemplation of flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sonny Carter, over on the Leica User Group (LUG), began a tradition some many years ago. He decided that Fridays were for flowers. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonc.com\/friday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s provided flower photographs<\/a> to the list every Friday ever since. Over time other members have added to the LUG&#8217;s Friday flower bouquet. <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.leica-users.org\/v\/ricc\/Bouquet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ric Carter contributes steadily<\/a>; as does <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.leica-users.org\/v\/Phileica\/album368\/?g2_page=10\" target=\"_blank\">Philippe Amard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Only occasionally do I contribute. Always thought dandelions quite lovely \u2014\u00a0don&#8217;t even know if weeds count as flowers;\u00a0often I can&#8217;t tell the difference between a weed and flower. Maybe this one should be on Wednesday weeds rather than Friday flowers. A minute ago Ric Carter informed me that Mr. Pollock in agriculture class back in Gates County High School said\u00a0&#8220;A rose is a weed, if it&#8217;s in your peanut patch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photos for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/l11002441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1261 aligncenter\" title=\"l11002441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/l11002441-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/l11002441-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/l11002441-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/l11002441.jpg 1252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Last friday I also contemplated some flowers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/l1100220.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1264\" title=\"l1100220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/l1100220-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/l1100220-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/l1100220.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with more views of these in a <a href=\" http:\/\/imagist.com\/lug_fri_flower_090529\/\" target=\"_blank\">slide show here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonny Carter, over on the Leica User Group (LUG), began a tradition some many years ago. He decided that Fridays were for flowers. And he&#8217;s provided flower photographs to the list every Friday ever since. Over time other members have added to the LUG&#8217;s Friday flower bouquet. Ric Carter contributes steadily; as does Philippe Amard. 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