Lovely View
by Nick Boren
Title
Lovely View
Artist
Nick Boren
Medium
Photograph - Nikon Digital Photography
Description
A couple enjoying the view of the majestic Mt.Hood among the beautiful tulips at the Wooden Shoe tulip fields near Woodburn Oregon.
From Wikipedia:
Tulips (Tulipa) are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colors). They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the lily family, Liliaceae, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae. There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated (see map). In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring.
Originally growing wild in the valleys of the Tian Shan Mountains, tulips were cultivated in Constantinople as early as 1055. By the 15th century, tulips were among the most prized flowers; becoming the symbol of the Ottomans.[2] While tulips had probably been cultivated in Persia from the tenth century, they did not come to the attention of the West until the sixteenth century, when Western diplomats to the Ottoman court observed and reported on them. They were rapidly introduced into Europe and became a frenzied commodity during Tulip mania. Tulips were frequently depicted in Dutch Golden Age paintings, and have become associated with the Netherlands, the major producer for world markets, ever since. In the seventeenth century Netherlands, during the time of the Tulip mania, an infection of tulip bulbs by the tulip breaking virus created variegated patterns in the tulip flowers that were much admired and valued. While truly broken tulips do not exist anymore, the closest available specimens today are part of the group known as the Rembrandts โ so named because Rembrandt painted some of the most admired breaks of his time.[3]
Breeding programs have produced thousands of hybrid and cultivars in addition to the original species (known in horticulture as botanical tulips). They are popular throughout the world, both as ornamental garden plants and as cut flowers.
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August 13th, 2021
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Comments (40)
Marilyn McNish
Congratulations in the Spring Logo Contest for the No Place Like Home group! Lovely photo of tulips, love, and Mt. Hood! :)
Jenny Revitz Soper
CONGRATULATIONS! It is my great pleasure to FEATURE your artwork on the homepage of the group No Place Like Home, 3/21/2023. You are invited to post it in the Group's Features Discussion thread for posterity or any other thread that fits!
Nicklas Gustafsson
Congratulations on your 1st place win in the No Place Like Home Spring Logo contest 2023!
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, on 1st Place Win, in SPRING 2023 LOGO CONTEST FOR NO PLACE LIKE HOME! v/f
Jenny Revitz Soper
Nick, this beauty tied for FIRST PLACE in the No Place Like Home Spring Logo contest 2023! It will be our logo for half of spring. Excellent work! LF/tw/pinned
Nick Boren replied:
Thank you so much Jenny, for sponsoring the Spring Logo contest and for the nice comment!
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your first place win in the 2023 Spring Logo Contest for No Place Like Home group! voted
Sarah Irland
Congratulations, Nick, on your 1st Place Win in the Spring 2023 Logo Contest for No Place Like Home! L/F
Jurgen Lorenzen
A wonderful spring composition, Nick, congratulations on your win in the SPRING 2023 LOGO CONTEST FOR NO PLACE LIKE HOME!
Nicklas Gustafsson
What a beautiful picture! Voted for in the Spring 2023 Logo Contest for No Place Like Home.
Gary F Richards
Spectacular Lovely View composition, lighting, shading, lovely colors and artwork! F/L voted
Donna Kennedy
Hi Nick! Love this beautiful image, and yes what a wonderful view!!...F/L โค๏ธ
Nick Boren replied:
Hi Donna, and thanks so much for your kind comment. I am pleased that you like this image. :-)