Nature creates the greatest beauty - the sunsets and sunrises, the trees, the flowers, the landscapes and seascapes and as seen through the most powerful telescopes, the heavens. We can only copy them as you have copied and presented that beauty for us to see. Thank you.
Theyremind me of the annual Tulip Festival in Holland, Michigan every year, Acres and acres of different colors of Tulips, people dancing and washing the streets in wooden shoes, windmills, paradesand on and on. Though If I remember I had my best time there when I was very young (about 7 years old) or when I was about 22 and stoned.
Although there is still some dispute on how big the prices in the great Tulip Mania became in the late 1630's, there is evidence that fortunes in Tulip speculations were made and lost overnight, without the bulbs even changing hands. The bubble burst when people suddenly realized that they were betting all of the money they had on the future prices of flowers. Just flowers.
It's much the way the housing bubble burst. People suddenly realized that they were just buying and selling houses to each other (speculators) many times sight unseen, betting that the prices were going to just keep going up. I remember driving through West Hollywood and looking at Craftsmen house going for 3 or 4 million dollars when, even at L.A. prices, they weren't worth more the $750k and telling my wife that someday someone is going to wake up and realize they'd spent way, way to much for the house that had. They suddenly woke up and realized that they had paid 4 times what the house was worth. When they came to their senses the bottom fell out of the market and suddenly people were almost begging you to buy their house. That's when we bought on a short sale and bought a home for just above 1/2 of what it's worth now.
Unfortunately for the Tulip speculators there was no market for the bulbs they had just spent most of the family fortune on, because after all (unlike with houses that have a tangible value) they were just flowers.
These were taken outside of the Clinic I go to for Physical Therapy.
Those are beautiful flowers, thanks for sharing them with us
Thank you! I'm more than glad to share them...
Beautiful, Nona. Thanks!
Thank you dd ...I'm glad you enjoyed them!!
Nature creates the greatest beauty - the sunsets and sunrises, the trees, the flowers, the landscapes and seascapes and as seen through the most powerful telescopes, the heavens. We can only copy them as you have copied and presented that beauty for us to see. Thank you.
Theyremind me of the annual Tulip Festival in Holland, Michigan every year, Acres and acres of different colors of Tulips, people dancing and washing the streets in wooden shoes, windmills, paradesand on and on. Though If I remember I had my best time there when I was very young (about 7 years old) or when I was about 22 and stoned.
Beautiful pics Nona!
Nona,
My favorite flower! I get them whenever I can. What a lovely selection.
Thank yon Buzz! I have said this many times before, but it's so true.....You can't go wrong with Nature.
Aaaww.....Thank you MM! Tulips AREamazing flowers, and they come in so many colors!
Flowers and Birds are my favorite things to photograph. Thanks for stopping by Perrie!!
Although there is still some dispute on how big the prices in the great Tulip Mania became in the late 1630's, there is evidence that fortunes in Tulip speculations were made and lost overnight, without the bulbs even changing hands. The bubble burst when people suddenly realized that they were betting all of the money they had on the future prices of flowers. Just flowers.
It's much the way the housing bubble burst. People suddenly realized that they were just buying and selling houses to each other (speculators) many times sight unseen, betting that the prices were going to just keep going up. I remember driving through West Hollywood and looking at Craftsmen house going for 3 or 4 million dollars when, even at L.A. prices, they weren't worth more the $750k and telling my wife that someday someone is going to wake up and realize they'd spent way, way to much for the house that had. They suddenly woke up and realized that they had paid 4 times what the house was worth. When they came to their senses the bottom fell out of the market and suddenly people were almost begging you to buy their house. That's when we bought on a short sale and bought a home for just above 1/2 of what it's worth now.
Unfortunately for the Tulip speculators there was no market for the bulbs they had just spent most of the family fortune on, because after all (unlike with houses that have a tangible value) they were just flowers.
WOW! Thanks for all of that info and the link! Very interesting stuff.....