Blues by maggiemae

Blues

This garden of ours has two mature Ceanothus bushes which at this time, display a sensational blue colour! We have had to prune considerably as they hang over the lawns and smack our lawnmower people riding on their machines, over their faces!

Only 10 more photos to post and I will have reached 4000!

Thankful for:
Another Doctor’s appt and in spite of me saying my wound looks just awful, he said with a sympathetic smile on his face.. it looks good … going to take a while to heal as injuries on the shin do not have a good blood supply!
The Ceanothus is a stunning bush when in full flower.. Yes the shin takes a long time to heal .. just have to be patient ..
November 4th, 2019  
Wow...that is magnificent!
November 4th, 2019  
This is gorgeous, I don't know it at all...
November 4th, 2019  
Such a beautiful blue
November 4th, 2019  
This is such a lovely rich colour.
November 4th, 2019  
What a gorgeous colour
November 4th, 2019  
Such a beautiful cloud of blue !
November 4th, 2019  
These look like trees, instead of bushes. Such a beautiful color. Almost 4,000 photos here, oh my. I’m glad your doctor is caring for your wound so often. It will get better, just a slow process.
November 4th, 2019  
So unusual to se a tree covered with blue flowers - makes it more special. Gorgeous image. Fav.
November 4th, 2019  
Bep
Stunning colour!
November 4th, 2019  
Beautiful tree
November 4th, 2019  
This looks amazing, so many little blue flowers on one bush.
November 4th, 2019  
Such a beautiful rich colour
November 4th, 2019  
4000! I am only half way. I did not see tree with colour like this before. How amazing, I guess it is not going to survive in Wellington.
November 4th, 2019  
That’s a stunning tree, it must really stop people in their tracks. I have only ever seen this plant as a shrub....this is enormous! Not often you see blue flowers!
November 4th, 2019  
@yaorenliu I think it would Yao - its easily grown.
November 4th, 2019  
@happypat This is what we see when we open our bedroom door to look through the house to the french doors!
November 4th, 2019  
Lovely
November 4th, 2019  
We have Ceanthosis too...wonderful display, lasts for ages...and such a striking shade of blue.
November 4th, 2019  
@maggiemae I must buy one for new garden eventually!
November 4th, 2019  
Lovely capture
November 4th, 2019  
Wow what a lovely rich colour!
November 5th, 2019  
Wow! What beautiful color!
November 5th, 2019  
Gorgeous color and nicely photographed
November 5th, 2019  
Lovely blues! Glad your wound is healing well even if your expectations are a bit higher than the doctor's! Nearly 4000 shots is amazing, thanks for sharing them with us!
November 5th, 2019  
@mccarth1 I think if I had known what would happen after just getting a small carcinoma out, you would have had to drag me kicking and screaming into the operating theatre!
November 5th, 2019  
Magic colour MM. So sorry to hear of all your post-op unpleasantness.
November 5th, 2019  
@golftragic Others have had similar or worse experiences, Marnie - I expect it is what you have had in your past to deal with!
November 5th, 2019  
Beautiful shot of the ceanothus. Hope wound keeps improving.
November 5th, 2019  
@shutterbug49 Its funny Ms Sh! I think I'm looking for sympathy and from365 friends I get 'good' etc which I have to thank them for the thoughts. Everyone around me says, its great to hear I'm improving but in actuality I'm swimming in self pity! If I showed a pic of my wound you would actually say, YUCK (in capital letters, of course) but the Doctors, hubby, nurse all say "looking healthy!
November 5th, 2019  
@maggiemae Not yet, thank goodness. I've spent much of my 77 years outside in the sun whenever possible so I have annual complete body mole-checks. Five or ? off my face, a couple of bigger ones with stitches, a couple off other bits of me and sent off for biopsy, all were OK in the end with a couple of nail-biters on the way. Plus two encounters with breast cancer, 1992 and 2014, surgery both times, radical axillary clearance first time, other stuff second time. Radio-therapy both times, first time really unpleasant, second time not too bad, all things considered. Tamoxifin for 5 years after second lot --> massive weight increase :( which I can't budge now I'm off the bloody stuff. No fun, but others have had far worse outcomes. But, as I've often heard from some older female golfers, while you're still on this side of the daisies things aren't toooo bad.
November 5th, 2019  
@maggiemae I hear you loud 'n clear. Les is a retired career nurse!
November 5th, 2019  
Crikey - you have had more than expected in your 77 years! I do think humour helps in times like these and puts us on the bright side of recuperation! Steroids are a pit!
November 5th, 2019  
Magical colour! With age I became short-sighted. I enjoy the day that lasts!
November 5th, 2019  
Wow, great color! I’d love to grow one. I’ll take Margo's @s4sayer word for its ability to live in the northern hemisphere!
I’m sorry, having been absent for a while I did no know about your surgery. I hear you: we have a very different way to look ad wounds than doctors... Maybe not all are like the dentist of "Little shop of horrors”, but... Take care!
November 5th, 2019  
@maggiemae Couldn't agree more MM. No good grizzling, no-one listens anyway.
November 6th, 2019  
@golftragic No one wants to feel tragic. Drs appt today - he came in, peered, stood up and said,"Fine"! It doesn't feel fine - I'm underneath this ghastly flesh - they are all above! You just might make me smile, Marnie!
November 6th, 2019  
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