Purple for Diane by busi2ness
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This is a flower I can just not identify with the help of my field guides. It can either be foreign or endemic and not yet being recorded.
I dedicate this to a well known artist, rainbows. Happy birthday Diane! We miss you dearly and hope you would partake of the fun once again.
Apologies if I do not get around to your uploads, I stepped on my reading glasses... :-|Thank you for comments and favorites on my fun upload of the "butterfly" :P:

Comments (47)
Just beautiful, Piet. The inner sanction of a flower is paradise in many ways. This kind has alovely, creamy throat with a subtle color that is amazing! What a perfect gift. Happy Birthday, Diane!
A beautiful flower and birthday greeting for Diane. I've not seen one like it before either.
wonderful capture and color...great dedication to a wonderful artist...
Very nice!
Excellent!
A beauty Piet: a so wonderful gift for DiDi!
what a wonderful bloom! Great photo!!!!!
Wonderful Work!!!
Stunning color, detail and texture. Very well done. Dana
Really a lovely blossom!
Beautiful colors... Happy Birthday Diane. Aloha
beautiful purple !
Beautiful flower, nice capture!
you got a beautiful mix of focus and texture, and created an almost painterly flower! Beautiful mix of lights & sensuous surfaces: A most unusual flower capture. Happy birthday to Diane once more! Beautiful image, Piet...
Oh Piet, what a gorgeous flower for Diane! Not to worry .. just get the glasses fixed! How can you read your field guide without them??? smiles ...
This came out very beautifully!
A very lovely gift this is Diane! Lovely flower and colors. Well done!