In Bloom

Again didn't get to far today so just ventured into the garden to see which flowers I could photograph. I planted this Clematis last year and it seems to be the latest dining experience for the snails (it now has 3 Michelin stars, it would have been 4 but the beer wasn't to good; used in the traps so it goes flat after a while) but lo and behold I still have beautiful flowers opening up to the sunshine.

A joke about flowers, hope it makes you smile on such a beautiful day:

Two friends, a blonde and a redhead, are walking down the street and pass a flower shop where the redhead happens to see her boyfriend buying flowers. She sighs and says, "Oh, no, my boyfriend is buying me flowers again". The blonde looks quizzically at her and says, "You don't like getting flowers?"
The redhead says, "I love getting flowers, but he always has expectations
after giving me flowers, and I just don't feel like spending the next three
days on my back with my legs in the air."
The blonde says, "Don't you have a vase?"

Canon EOS 40D with Sigma 24-135 F2.8/F4.0 at 135mm. 1/500 sec ~ F4.5 ~ ISO 100 ~ pattern metering