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“There are not many original shapes or silhouettes, only a million variations.”

~ Charles James

Captured at Britannia Park, Ottawa, Canada June 21, 2023.

“I like this place & I could willingly waste my time in it.”

~ William Shakespeare

Britannia Park/beach. Although this scene looks uncrowded. It was a challenge to find places where there wasn’t any people. Captured Summer solstice 2023, Britannia beach, Ottawa Canada.

“If I could reach up & hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.”

~ Author Unknown

Captured at Britannia Park, Ottawa, Canada June 21, 2023.

APP’s R great 4 posting panorama photos. It splits the pic into however many pieces U like. My pano was shot manually on my iPhone & horizon isn’t completely straight. So I adjusted the split photos so I could make the horizon level. Once U post the sliced pano & swipe left the image looks continuous & lines up perfectly, that is if the pano was shot perfectly level. A few APPs I’ve tried out to slice the pano photo vertically is Panorama Crop & PanoraSplit. I liked the PanoraSplit over the other. For this platform we can’t post post photos in a sequence or 3 across but U can see what I meant by looking at the 1st pics they line up exactly in the right place to view the 2 together as 1 photo would be.

APP’s can add space around a pano shot so it doesn’t get cropped by the parameters of diff platforms. Photoshop can B used 2 layer a pano on top of a black, white or any color box. But APPs R really easy to use. Here a list of some of the APP’s I’ve tried out: Collagable, Canva, Picsart, SnapSeed, I’m told any collage APP can achieve this, & lastly I found InstaSize. Appropriate name & it had options to correspond with many diff social media platforms. I used InstaSize for the pano in this post. If using Collageable just select the single pic photo frame at top left corner when APP opens, import pano photo, use 2 fingers & pinch pic reducing the size so it fit the frame, you can choose how much or how little white space around the pano you want, lastly save 2 camera roll. Most of these have many options to achieve the look you like, different background colours, gradients, including patterned or plain to choose from.

Let me know if U like my little tutorial or if U have questions.

Captured Summer Solstice evening June 21, 2023, at Britannia Park, Ottawa, Canada.

“See the beauty of a sunset to enjoy the passion of life.”

~ Debasish Mirdha

Captured at Britannia Park, Ottawa, Canada June 21, 2023.

Happy summer solstice.

We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

~ Native American Proverb

Britannia Park/beach. Although this scene looks uncrowded. It was a challenge to find places where there wasn’t any people. Captured Summer solstice 2023, Britannia beach, Ottawa Canada.

Happy summer! There wasn’t any shortage of people at Britannia beach on Summer Solstice evening 2023. I have never seen so many volley ball games going on at the same time. Nets were setup on the beach but also on the grass. The canteen was full of people & there were people with BBQ going, walking, riding biking, swimming, dog walking, a whole bunch of watercraft on the Ottawa River & of course people taking in the sunset. I was told this was a volleyball league. Guess Wed is volleyball day! Captured on Summer Solstice 2023 evening, Britannia Beach, Ottawa Canada.

“May the warmth & joy of summer stay with you always!”

~ Author Unknown

Captured at Britannia Park, Ottawa, Canada June 21, 2023.

Happy summer solstice. There wasn’t any shortage of people at the Britannia beach this evening. Although this scene looks uncrowded. It was a challenge to find a few shots with less people around. Summer solstice 2023, Britannia beach, Ottawa Canada.

Finola or Angelique Tulip, does anyone know which this is? Maybe I’ve got the wrong names altogether. I couldn’t find a tulip image like this in a web search. It was so crowded Mother’s day when I went 2 the festival sometimes I didn’t get close enough to find out the varieties name.

White tulips can symbolize different things depending on the circumstances. Traditionally it meant I’m sorry or a condolence message. During Victorian times in the book “The Language of Flowers” it meant pure love & passion. In modern times white is a symbol of purity & tulips a symbol of new life or pure love. White is associated with heaven & peace so good choice for religious ceremonies.

I’m not sure if this tulip meaning is correct or complete since it isn’t all white. There could be another meaning because this 1 has some pink margins & artistic green feathering or flames on the back of the outer petals. This is an annual 10 day festival which kicks off our tourist season. Captured at the Canadian Tulip Festival (largest tulip festival in the world), Commissioners Park (main festival site), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada May 14, 2023.

Triumph Charade tulips R blush pink which transition 2 orange at the margins. Some charade tulips darken as they age. Orange tulips R the most popular tulip because they R such a bright color. But there R no natural orange tulips in the wild. The Dutch selectively bred orange tulips in the 17th century by mixing red & yellow.

Orange tulips symbolize a sense of understanding & appreciation between 2 people, usually in a relationship. Sending a bouquet of orange tulips means U feel spiritually & physically connected 2 recipient. Orange tulips symbolize excitement, happiness, enthusiasm, warmth, positive vibes & energy. If you receive orange tulips the person wants U 2 feel they R happy with U or 4 U or just want 2 cheer you up.

See other tulip posts 4 info on why Canadians receive a gift of 10,000 Tulips each year for last 78years from the DutchRoyal Family.

Classic Canadian Tulip Festival photo. I wonder if for 78 years the owners of these homes in the background like having so many photos taken of their homes? What do you think?

The Dutch Royal Family sends Canada a Royal gift of 10,000 tulip bulbs every year for the last 78 years. The tulips commemorate the Canadian Military who fought & lost their lives in helping to liberate the Netherlands in WWII. Also for keeping the Dutch Royal family safe in Canada during WWII. In remembrance of Princess Marguerite’s birth in Canada during the war & for the lasting friendship between our countries.

Canada honours Princess Julianna’s gift by holding a 10 day Tulip Festival every spring, in May. Over a million tulips are planted every year. This consists of 100 varieties, in 120 gardens, in 30 locations in our National Capital Region of Ottawa On, & Gatineau Que. All my photos were taken at the main festival site & there’s 30,000 tulips in this 1 park alone. Captured at Commissioners Park (main festival site), Ottawa, Canada. May 14, 2023.

Pink is the color of good wishes, health, & confidence. This makes pink tulips a good choice to congratulate someone on a graduation or new job. It’s also a good choice to wish someone get well & speedy recovery messagee. It also can mean love & admiration but not the romantic kind of love.

Captured at the Canadian Tulip Festival, Commissioners Park (main festival site), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada May 14, 2023

I’m not really sure which tulip this is. If anyone knows message me so I can edit. I searched the interactive map of the festival website but I didn’t find an answer. I’m guessing at the colors. Colors also have a specific meaning.

Coral is the color of acceptance, warmth, positivity & individuality.

Salmon is the color of fellowship, compassion, individuality & expression.

Champagne is a symbol of love, modesty, celebration & class.

The name Muscari (common name grape hyacinth) originates with the Greek word “Moschos” which means musk. The name refers to the scent of Muscari.

The name grape hyacinth refers to the flowers appearance resembling a bunch of grapes. Hyacinth in the name grape hyacinth refers to its similarity to the shape of true hyacinth flowers.

Symbolism of Muscari is confidence & power. It’s also a symbol of creativity & mystery. Blue muscari to me resemble cobalt blue. Cobalt blue symbolizes ingenuity, enlightenment, solitude & productivity.

Captured at the Canadian Tulip Festival (largest Tulipfest in the world), Commissioners Park (main festival site), Ottawa Canada, May 14, 2023.

Hemisphere Tulip has petals that R shades of intense pink & white with raspberry stripes, freckles or flaming rose that bloom in mid-spring. The petals are spade shaped with a mid-rib. This species is a member of the Triumph Tulip family. These tulips have very sturdy stems that can with stand strong wind & rain. These beauty’s compliment most any flower bouquet. Triumph tulips are the largest group of tulips including the cultivars & they grow 10”-16”. These flowers are able to tolerate volatile weather.

The Royal Dutch family sends a gift of 10,000 tulip bulbs every year for last 78 years to Ottawa, Canada. The gesture is to commemorate the Canadian Military who fought & lost their lives in the liberation of the Netherlands during WWII. It’s remembrance of Princess Marguerite birth in Ottawa during the war. The Royal gift is also gratitude for keeping them safe in Canada during the war & commemorates the lasting friendship between our countries. Captured at the Canadian Tulip Festival, Ottawa Canada Mothers Day May 14, 2023.

This 1st tulip is called “Flaming Club” & are a known as Flowering Singe Late Tulips. This species of tulip can have 5 or more flower heads per stem. Each flower head is uniquely painted with shades of berry red, fuchsia, & white. They bloom mid spring & can grow 22” high.

The 2nd red tulip is a Red Shine Tulip. The “Red Shine” Tulip is an elegant flower. They resemble the shape of a lily & so they are known as a lily flowered tulip. This is a graceful tulip with shiny red petals. It is long lasting, with goblet shaped flower head & pointed reflexed petals. It blooms in late spring.

Red Shine tulip was awarded the prestigious Award Of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticulture Society. They make an elegant graceful display when swaying in the wind & can grow up to 22” high.

Captured at the Canadian Tulip Festival (largest tulip festival in the world), Commissioners Park (main festival site), Ottawa Canada May 14, 2023. For those who don’t know why the Dutch Royal family sends a gift of 10,000 tulip bulbs every year for the last 78 years to Canada see the comments of previous tulip posts.

Yellow & purple tulips R complementary colors & so pretty. Tulips is a Turkish word for spring blooming flowers from the Liliaceae family. While the tulip is most often associated with Holland it was 1st cultivated in Turkyie (proper spelling of the country’s name). It was introduce to Europe in 1550.

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A streak-like appearance of the flower was found 2 B caused by a virus. It was transferred by aphids to the plant & that weakened the plants. The government ban cultivation of infected tulips. So the tulips we see today R known as Rembrandt tulips. These tulips were bred to resemble the flower which fuelled “Tulip Mania”.

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What’s “Tulip Mania”? In the 17th century (approx 1634) Tulips became an exotic luxury & each sold 4 hundreds of dollars. The story is that the Dutch people mortgaged their houses & estates 2 invest in Tulips. The plan was 2 resell them 4 a higher price, hence “Tulip Mania”. The most rare & valuable tulip was a flame-like red & white streaked tulip, Semper Augustus. This tulip looks like it is striped. At the time 12 bulbs of this variety was the only bulbs available. Buyers thought they had a 1 of a kind plant. See other comments for more of the story.

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