• Wednesday-What'sUP June 11 - 08:15 am

Flowers, flowers, flowers…I love this time of year with all the various flowers in bloom. It's like someone took a crayon and started coloring the Keweenaw for us. Thankfully we have folks like Barb Bouwkamp who get out there and snap photos of all this springtime beauty.

My favorite of today's bouquet is the first one, with the white and blue Forget-Me-Nots, along with a few dandelions popping their bright yellow heads out above them. Did you know that the dainty little Forget-Me-Nots are a flower symbol for the folks suffering from Alzheimer's? The saying that goes along with them is: "They may forget, but never let them be forgotten".

The remaining flowers from Barb have me stumped. I have no clue what their technical names are, all I know is that they're beautiful, each in its own unique way. If you look closely at photos two and three, you'll spot some type of little bug on the flowers there. It looks like it may be a small bee or wasp. What do you think?

Beautiful images! Thank you, Barb!

I'm partial to dandelions myself. They remind me of the bouquets my children used to pick for me! :-)

GORGEOUS pics. I love all the spring flowers.

Absolutely pretty!

I had not heard the connection between
Forget-Me-Nots and Alzheimer's, Mary, that's very touching.
Beautiful photos, Barb! Thanks!!

The purple ones are Hyacinths, always a hard word
for me to spell, but a lovely flower with a lovely
scent, too.

Love that saying, Mary. And that's my favorite
picture of these, too!

Nice flower pictures. Thanks for enlightening me. I have a yardful of those forget-me-nots and didn't know what they were.