Weekly Contest. "Photographing Flowers Week #6"

Hello everyone!

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Hope everything is going well. This is my very first arrival to this beloved community. And, here is my entry for the weekly contest - Photographing Flowers, organized by @adeljose.

From the movement I saw this interesting contest yesterday, I was so excited because flowers are one of my most favorite designs of the nature. Then I was thinking of taking photographs of some beautiful flowers. And, at the same time, I got a chance to visit the monastery located in our area. I'm from the heavenly beautiful island, Sri Lanka, and from a very beautiful area filled with various varieties of flowers. So, our monastery is also full of very attractive flowers. As soon as I reach there, yes, I found the flower that I was looking for.

There is a special reason for me to be so attracted to this flower. In my memory, there is a link between this monastery and these attractive flower vines. The reason may be a little bit funny. I have been visiting this monastery since my childhood. Ever since I first visited there, these flowers have always been hanging there beautifully. In each and every visit, I felt like these flower vines were smiling with me and welcoming me while blowing in the wind. Nearly two decades have passed now, but I can still see these beauties hanging and smiling with me whenever I visit there. And, yes, need to mention that it was not the same plant throughout all this time.

So actually, in my mind, these flowers act as a symbol of our monastery. Isn't it a sort of funny thing? Yes, but it's true. When I see these flowers somewhere else, then they immediately make me remember our monastery.

Sadly, I never knew the name of these beauties for all this time. But today, I searched through the internet, and yes, I found, they are called Indian Clock Vines. It is a stunning creation of nature, with bright yellow and red colors. Vines grow up to about 20 feet, and a cluster of beautiful flowers blooms at the end of the vine. Little insects and flying cuties can be found around them most of the time. But unfortunately, while I was taking the photos, I couldn't see any of the flying ones.

Finally, I decided to treat them well even more than before from now on, since now I know their name as well.

So, it's all about it. Hope you will enjoy it. And thank you for reading!

Best Regards!