Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Blue Flowers

My response to Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Blue-Purple Flowers

Commelina/Dayflower – Wangden Khoibi (in Manipuri)

Blue Pimpernal – called Neel (literally blue) in Hindi, not sure what it is called in Manipuri

not sure which flower this is

Morning glory – mayeplei (Manipuri)

I realised i had many photographs of flower in the blue-purple colours and some I had already posted earlier on my blog. I am sticking to the colour Blue. Just for the fun of it, i have arranged them in order of the size of the flowers. Except for the third flower, the others are considered wild/weed. I wonder what the third flower is.

©Ingallei

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Somebody left the tomato eating spaghetti @ Rishikesh!

graffiti @ Rishikesh

This must probably be my fifth or sixth visit to the little town. Caught sight of this big-eyed happy tomato trying to eat spaghetti on the walls of Rishikesh not far from the Laxman Jhulla. It was a sunny day and the sunny colours of the graffiti echoed it. The graffiti is signed ‘Bianca Wolff, Australia, EW 15’. Someone sure left her mark!

‘To paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way until the peacock led him in’

…. and that makes me wonder why we are so in love with beauty and yet are so suspicious about it.

In flight: evening rendezvous continues; entries from My Peafowl Diaries ©Ingallei

‘Just living is not enough …. one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower’ – Hans Christian Anderson

Blue pimpernal: the little blue beauties   

My walks at the nearby park continues. I chanced upon these sleeping beauties (below). A flower after my own heart for the simple reason that it is a late riser like myself! At eight – eight thirty in the morning when most people are up and about, they were still sleeping so I had to come back again for them at a later time – i went around eleven to give them enough time and i found them in full glory like bright little blue stars in the green bed of its foliage. oh yes! I would definitely love to have them when I have my own garden.

sleeping beauty: blue pimpernal yet to open

©Ingallei

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” – Walt Whitman

morning glory – a glorious English name for a wildflower that is commonly noted for crawling up walls and dismissed as creeper *mayep-lei in Manipuri, in the name of the amplifiers called mayep corrupted from ‘mic’

Like wildflower; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would -E.V.

little blues and pinks of wildflowers in blossom while on a walk