Glad to Be a Gladiola



Gladiola, photo by Harold Davis.

I have been photographing gladioluses today.

A gladiola, or gladiolus, is a glad thing. This member of the Iris family is so colorful and always makes me feel glad.

Do flowers have feelings? If so, I suspect that the gladiola feels glad too – even when I’m examining its every petal, crevasse, and mote of pollen with my extension-tubed macro lens rig.

More glads…

Gladiolus Lips More Gladiola Gladness

…and more flowers:


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