while at race meetings

[SmartWombat]

the last two weekends, wasn't all about cars

[paulnj]

Oh, very cool flower and that 1st one is my favorite

[Copy_Kot]

Very cool indeed.

[Knight]

Very nice PAul now tell me what`s its name

[SmartWombat]

Very nice PAul now tell me what`s its name

Doris, I asked

It's a genus Passiflora, passion flower.
But with over 500 species it'd be a wild guess anyhow.
I'd say a cultivar of Passiflora caerulea as it was in a garden hedge.

[karen m.]

Thanks for sharing, PAul, the colors and design of the flowers are awesome

[mn shutterbug]

Is that first flower for real? That is one strangely gorgeous flower.

[Loupey]

Definitely one of the coolest flower I've ever seen.

Nice planning and execution with the fly on #2

[SmartWombat]

Planned fly ?
I wish !
Just a lucky break

[readingr]

What a gorgeous flower. Where does it grow?

Nicely captured.

Looks like a helicopter with twin counter rotating rotors ready for take off :lol:

Roger

[SmartWombat]

Looks like a helicopter with twin counter rotating rotors ready for take off

Heathen !

"The unusual shape of the flowers has led to the plant being associated in Christian symbolism with the passion of Jesus; the three stigmas representing the three nails used to nail Jesus to the cross, the ovary and its stalk represent the chalice of the Last Supper, the five anthers represent the five wounds, the corona represents the crown of thorns, the ten 'petals' (actually five petals and five sepals) the apostles (save Judas the traitor and Peter the denyer); the old leaves also represent the hands of those who persecuted him, the young leaves the point of the lance used to stab him, and the tendrils the whips of those who beat him."

So you can see into a flower anything you want to, God or a helicopter :thumbsup: