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Terri Webster Schrandt

The Flower Hour #17: An Edited Journey of a #Crocus

Here in Northeastern Washington, we’re another six weeks away from seeing crocus flowers in bloom. Here’s what bloomed last year in my garden!

“The crocus reminds us that no matter how harsh the winter, spring always returns.”
– Katrina Meyer

purple crocus
Purple Crocus

Alongside my passion for photography, I enjoy using filters and coloring apps, particularly Color Planet. This paint-by-number “game” allows me to color and save digital images. Here is one I colored and saved. It is meant to have an “oil-painting” quality.

graphic crocus

Now that AI is available as a tool for editing, creating, etc., I used the WordPress image block to create an AI-generated version of the Color Planet image. It created very realistic-looking flowers and grass.

purple forest crocus
AI-Generated from Color Planet image

Here’s hoping the purple and white ones emerge late next month.

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Please note that you don’t have to share an edited flower or a crocus for this week’s Flower Hour.

New flower images are welcomed, and archived images are encouraged.

For the Flower Hour, share your images of flowers, gardens, fields of flowers, seasonal leaves and plants, fungus, algae, cacti, blossoms, berries, and wildflowers. Bouquets and silk/faux flowers are welcome.

Remember, there are no specific themes for the Flower Hour, but please use your own photography. And you have all week to link to this post.

New to The Flower Hour photo challenge? Please check out my page for more information! I encourage “double-dipping” with other blog challenges if you do not want to create a separate post.

“White and purple crocuses are always the first to burst through Winter’s crusty, frozen soil as its lonely reign is overthrown by a brave new season.” – Graham Russell

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  3. We had a one-day Spring thaw today … 45 degrees. Woo hoo! I hope we have turned a corner. I need to see if the Snow Drops pop up now in the neighborhood. That’s amazing what you can do with AI for creating paintings from photos … hmm, less messy than painting. I have to return to painting. I had so many photos taken last year to go through that I’ve been sorting through them since January and getting some reading done.

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    • Thank you, Janis! You’re right! I checked today and the green shoots have emerged. It was 50 here today, way too warm. We’re heading south in two weeks and I’m afraid I’ll miss them!

      I’ll PM you soon with our SD dates.

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  22. Your images and words are great and inspiring as we impatiently await a thaw (never mind spring blossoms!). I love the AI image and (very red-faced) didn’t even know that technology was available on WordPress so thank you! pp

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