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Today’s Photo Memories: Pink Peonies


A Repeating Image of Pink Peonies by Crystal A Murray (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

A few of my photo storage apps like to show me an “On This Day” section with photos from the same date in different years. When I saw all my pink peonies from 2021, I knew I had to share them. Within the same few days, I captured a yard full of flower variety from my cellphone camera.

Before I moved to Kentuckiana, I do not think I’d ever even heard of a peony flower, let alone seen one. Maybe I did and don’t recall it, but the here and now brings these giant beauties every year courtesy of my friends (Mark and Debbie) who planted them before they sold us our Indiana house. Having never been a gardening kinda gal, the colorful blooms that grace my yard every year are truly gifts that keep on giving. What a blessing they are to see.

I was so happy with this capture that I put it through a program to add a matching frame, and then I started playing with effects. I think the one above was in Mirror Lab, and I think the repeating design is really pretty on the single framed flower. I used the same flower to make a simple pink on tan fractal…

Pink Peony Fractal Burst by Crystal A Murray (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

And I’ll close with one more manipulation where you can clearly see the peony flowers but yet get lost in the array of twists and turns.

Pink Peony Fractal Twist by Crystal A Murray (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

And though they are not lilies, I think the Scripture about the beauty of lilies being even more grand than King Solomon’s royal attire.

Luke 12:27 BSB
[27] Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.

https://bible.com/bible/3034/luk.12.27.BSB
Simple Peony Haiku...

Peony flowers:
Pink, full, and blooming heavy.
Though their time is short.

A picture captures,
Their lives for us to savor.
Worth a thousand words.

May 21, 2026 Posted by | Bible, Creative Image Editing, Creativity, Flowers and Nature Scenes, haiku, memories, Mirror Lab Images, Nonfiction, Photography, Poetry, Slice of Life | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

   

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