Picture Thread 2014

These flowers are in our front yard. I'm not sure what they are, and I'm hoping someone who is familiar with flowers like, maybe, @Dan Leach might know what they are.
I think they're gorgeous, and I tried to capture the light so their colors could be as accurate as possible. Any ideas?

EDIT: They're hyacinth.

This is what the wife gets to look at while she eats.

Did you plant these, or are they growing wild? If I didn't live in "homeowners association" subdivision, I'd like to plow up my entire yard and grow a big variety of wildflowers.

They're wild.

They look pretty calm to me.

They're librarian wild. Sure, they look all cool and collected when around the public, but get them alone, and holy shit will they organize your genealogy room!

Indeed. I found out not too long ago, but thank you for going to the trouble of checking for me. I don't really know how they got there. They didn't exist in that spot last year when we moved in, but they're here now, and they're lovely.

pops into the thread...with an oldie. whats wanted? i have clouds, scenes, birds, london, plants, paintwork, and pantries...

Just post whatever you feel like!

Though it's generally personal stuff, stuff going on in our lives, family, events. pretty scenery we just saw. Our dogs. Shooter's food.

ok, a shot from London 2.5 weeks ago...

Out west last weekend.

They grow from bulbs, and these are the cultivated variety, so someone must have planted them at some point (wild hyacinth are much weedier looking). They pop up in early spring and last for a few weeks. When the leaves yellow, cut them back to ground level, sprinkle a little fertilizer on the spot, and they'll pop up again next spring.

(They smell wonderful, don't they?)

Indeed, they do. When we get a (rare) warm wind, you can smell them throughout the house.

Incredible, as usual.

What's a "mental sunset"? I am supposing it doesn't mean a sunset that exists only in your mind, or you wouldn't be able to take pictures of it...

You have to read it wif a bri'ish acksent, chum.

WOW!

Porchin' it, watching the world go by.

I thought we had established that Dan could only post in his own photo thread to avoid making the rest of us look bad.

What do you mean, "us"?