‘If you are going to this woman, if you are going to walk the length of England without a map and your mobile and without even telling me first, then at least have the goodness to own up to what you’re doing. This is your choice, Harold. (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry)
Today’s TTT is themed “May Flowers”, but I’m going to go with a three-part presentation. First up, books with flowers in the title. Most of them I haven’t read, but when I did a search I found eight that sounded rather interesting so I’m going to share them here, and a few of them I might actually read! Second, I’m going to share some of my favorite flower photos from my Instagram, and thirdly I’m going to embed one of my favorite pieces of music, “Duo des fleurs”. Actually, let’s start with that..
(1) Flowers for Algernon. Possibly the most depressing novel I’ve ever read, and I’ve read it at least three times since middle school.
(2) The Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani. A novel about a young woman who becomes a weaver of rugs in Isfahan. The rest of these are just books I saw when I searched for “flowers” in worldcat.
(3) One Hundred Flowers, Georgia O’Keefe. This has prints of one hundred of her paintings. I’ve never really explored her art but could see this being a nice coffee table book.
(4) Flowers from Berlin, a 1985 spy novel in which an FBI agent is tracking a talented German spy whose intent is to knock off FDR.
(5) Flowers in the Sky, a novel about a young woman from the Dominican Republic who moves to New York City.
(6) A Hundred Flowers, Gail Tsukiyama. A novel about the chaos and slaughter of Mao’s cultural revolution.
(7) Dog Flowers, a story of a librarian who returns to her parents on the Navajo reservation and puts her archival skills to work.
(8) In the Palace of Flowers, a story of two slaves finding love in late 19th century Iran, in the midst of Britain and Russia’s “great game” vying for influence in the region.
(9) The Brief Life of Flowers, a work commenting on the cultural and environmental importance of flowers.
(10)Ikebana: The Zen Way of Flowers,Yuji Ueno. On mindful flower arrangment and presentation?
It’s lily season on the Cahaba river! A few stretches of the Cahaba river have the shoals required to host short-lived Cahaba lilies, which bloom for a couple of months and attract thousands of viewers. The most popular location to visit them is in West Blocton.
These are Louisiana iris, I believe, from a stand that used to bloom every late March and very early April. Sadly, they’ve not done so in two years: I suspect the especially hard winter we had in 2022, with two weeks of sustained subzero temperatures (a freakish occurrence in central Alabama) did them in.
I took this in April of last year, though I’m not sure where.
Oh, and here’s another flower.
I won’t lie I know that I should’ve
Went to church with you more
I’m in a place you never thought I’d be
Most nights I wonder if you’d
Be proud of me
And I could put a flower on your grave but it would
Probably just blow away and you wouldn’t know I put it there, anyhow
I don’t feel so good anymore, at least not
Like I did before, but I still think you love me, anyhow
Yeah I still think you love me anyhow
Reading Freely 
Dog Flowers sounds interesting.
You have some nice flowers in your yard!
Thanks for stopping by earlier.
Lydia
Gorgeous flowers!
Thank you! Most of them are wild.
I think Dog Flowers sounds interesting too. Great photos!
Thank you!
LOVELY classical music! But I’m a huge fan of that sort of thing and have Classic FM on all day….
Only one of the books I’ve read (eons ago) is ‘Flowers for Algernon’. Yup – quite depressing!
NICE flower pix! You have an ‘eye’ for that!!
Thanks! I’m a serious amateur shutterbug. 🙂
Such gorgeous photos! And lots of books I’ve never heard of before, must look into a few now.
Here is our <a href=”https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/top-ten-tuesday-scary-books-with-flowers-on-their-covers/“>Top Ten Tuesday.</a> Thank you!
It’s nice to see flowered cross =) my old church used to have the children flower the cross at Easter.
Yep! It’s an Easter morning tradition. 🙂 A longer-lived iteration is a parish Christmas tree that’s also put in the clos that people can decorate. We used to do it inside, but COVID changed that and we realized we like it better as outside decoration.
I love your flowers! Thanks for sharing!
Those flower photos were perfect to view as I listened to the lovely music. I need to go to Spotify and tag that song. Thanks for visiting. Yes, Flowers for Algernon was super depressing. Read Bewilderment a modern retelling of it. Also depressing.
I hadn’t heard of Bewilderment! Not sure if I want to check it out or not, though.
A lovely collection of flowers!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/may-flowers-book-covers-with-flowers/
I just read Flowers for Algernon for the first time last year and it was so good! I love all your lovely flower pictures here!
Haze
https://thebookhaze.com/
I have not read any of these as well. Lovely pictures of flowers from your Instagram page. Have a great week!
The photos of the flowers are gorgeous! I love that you went so close in. 😍
This Saturday I was literally on my belly trying to get a good focused shot of a little flower! Will do whatever it takes for a good shot.
I love how you approached this—and your absolutely gorgeous photos!
Wow, those are gorgeous photos! Thanks for sharing.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Brilliant list. I especially love the first song. One of my favourite renditions.Thanks for visiting my post.