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Monday, April 16, 2018

The Influence of Douglas William Jerrold + Mutts: A Shelter for New Born Flowers!


Douglas William Jerrold, the English dramatist and writer, is reported to have said, "He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain."

I featured this quotation (as well as the Mutts comic strip that is posted atop this entry), in a 2011 post here on Blogger; where I discussed my concern for a small Japanese Larch (Larix Kaempferi) that I was growing at that time.

This comic strip came to my mind today due to the weather patterns which have been (and still are) occurring in NYC, causing me to feel the need to bring certain flowers inside my home to protect them from losing their brand new petals!

These include Elegant Lady Tulips (seen in my home in the first three images below where the latter picture features her with Hot Springs Water Lilies) as well as Monte Orange Tulips (shown in in my home in the fourth image).

OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1
OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1
OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1
OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1

Here's why these flowers are currently inside my home taking shelter from my urban garden:

On Sunday, temperatures were thirty degrees lower than they had been the previous day, Saturday, April the fourteenth.

In fact it was so warm this past Saturday, Juan V suggested I de-winterize (unwrap the containers) where certain flowers were thriving, as evidenced in the following photographs.

GARDEN WINTERIZING IS DISCUSSED IN VOL 2
GARDEN WINTERIZING IS DISCUSSED IN VOL 2
As you can see the only difference in these two images is that I've added text to the latter of them to indicate the flower types who were beyond ready to shed their winter gear.

The "EL" placed by three containers indicates my Elegant Lady Tulip, which can be seen in close-up views  directly below.

OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1
OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1
OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1
OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1
OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1

Another tulip type that was ready to get out of her winter wear is the Monte Orange Tulip variety (indicated by the text, "MO," a variety which I discussed in this past Friday's entry here on Blogger (where I included images of the Monte Orange Tulip variety).

Yet flower type who was eager to shed her winterizing "apparel," is the one known as the Hot Springs Water Lily. She is referenced with the letters, "HSWL." Some close-up images are featured in the next set of pictures.

HOT SPRINGS WATER LILY
HOT SPRINGS WATER LILY
HOT SPRINGS WATER LILY
HOT SPRINGS WATER LILY
HOT SPRINGS WATER LILY
HOT SPRINGS WATER LILY
HOT SPRINGS WATER LILY
HOT SPRINGS WATER LILY

With all the wind and rain we had today, these flowers would've lost all their petals had I not brought them inside, and unlike the character in the comic strip above the entry, I couldn't stand outside and hold an umbrella over each of them!

Incidentally, the other tulip varieties (Pinocchio TulipsJe t'aime Tulips, and a Blumex Tulip 2017-2018 variety) are still waiting to bloom. They were also planted this past November (when the Elegant Lady, Monte Orange and Hot Springs Water Lily bulbs were planted).

Please stay tuned for their progress. Meanwhile, if you appreciate flowers, you will probably enjoy volume one of Cam's book series, Words In Our Beak, which is pictured below (in volume two she talks about winterizing).
SEE PRESS RELEASE
ADDENDUM FALL 2018: 

The digital versions of Volume One within the Words In Our Beak book series that are mentioned in this entry may only remain available for a limited time, but hardcover versions of Volume One, Two and Three can now be found wherever books are sold.

MY BOOK SERIES



Please click here to go to my blog post that provides details as to where you can get these books. Additionally, I have rendered some images from these books into other formats and they are available via Fine Art America (FAA). Some of my other photographs (Black & White CollectionKaleidoscopic Images and the famous Mandarin duck who visited NYC) can also be found on my FAA pages.

ADDENDUM SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2021:

When the third volume of the hard-cover version of Words In Our Beak was released, I withdrew from promoting my former versions of Words In Our Beak. 

The very first one is an iBook and went into Apple's book store in 2015.


This was followed by an ePub version...


... that is available on Amazon and was also published in 2015.

Subsequently, Words In Our Beak's digital versions were published as a soft-cover book (with slight variations) by MagCloud in 2017.


Its press release can be read by clicking here.  

Now with the release of BIRD TALES....


... I've been advised to make mention of my early versions of volume one of Words In Our Beak, they do vary ever so slightly in content from the hard-cover version of volume one.

As of this addendum, I do not intend to create digital or soft-cover versions of Words In Our Beak Volume Two or Words In Our Beak Volume Three.

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