#Elegant Blossom

[candylandphotos]

Beautiful girl with flowers in hand

"Blooming in beauty: A beautiful girl with flowers in hand."

[vintagehomecollection]

Elegance in Flowers: Classic Arrangements for All Seasons, 1985

[ppgxrrblove]

this is too cute, love the matching outfit the girls have, especially adore the accessories for buttercup - perfect. also love the boys styles, boomer looks too cute.

[dinnerthyme]

[devdas5z]

Ni Ni in Harper’s Bazaar China December 2018

[marinawoznjuksworld]

[regnigt]

Gintama Flower Suite, part four: Otae with Plum Blossom! I could have gone with a cherry blossom here as well - Otae is often associated with it - but again chose not to. The gentle but beautiful plum blossom that signals the arrival of spring is also associated with Otae in the series at times, and it just seems to fit her. Of course, the cup she's seen with here contains plum wine...

[calmingram]

White Blooms 🤍

[herbalnature]

Soft white ranunculus blossoms glisten with dew, nestled amongst fresh hydrangea leaves. It's a serene snapshot of nature's simple elegance.

[me4n]

Cherry blossom jewellery 🌸🌸

[thebitchbehindtheslaughter]

GENDER UPDATE

I’m still a transman, I’m just a very specific type of man (ie. that one character from a, in hindsight, obviously misogynistic early 2000s cartoon that everyone thinks is a beautiful woman and has all the male leads chasing after her so the one female lead gets jealous [‘cuz she’s a woman and this is an early 2000s cartoon] and tries to investigate the only other woman in the show, hoping to find out that she’s evil, but instead of being evil she’s just a he—a very beautiful man with long hair who likes wearing dresses and makeup and is definitely being played for a one-off joke to embarrass the male leads but he also probably made a lot of little kids realise their sexualities then and there)

Did anyone else also experience this type of man in at least two different shows as a kid and had their brain absorb it for later Gender Uses, or am I just cursed?

[lifeinspired4u]

[ali-1996]

Chinese natural culture wall paper

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Jiang Xitong: Morning Blossoms

Designer's Reflection: Morning Blossoms

Obtained: Clear Skies workshop

Rarity: SSR

Attribute: Gold/Elegant

Awakened Suit: Moon at Dusk

Story - transcripts from Designer's Reflection

Chapter 1 - Flower Fest Promise

Chapter 2 - Scotch Broom and Jade Hairpin

Chapter 3 - Phoenix and Butterfly

Chapter 4 - Wide-Leaf Magnolia

Story - summarized

Jiang Xitong is enjoying the Flower Fest from the Evergreen Garden when she joins a group call with her family. Her sister, Beixi, is in Apple working on a documentary, and her parents are visiting the grandma.

While they can't meet in person for the holiday, they all play a game called Grass Battle. The goal is to match as many plants to poetry as possible.

Beixi starts with hosta. Xitong matches it with a couplet easily. Then, Xitong chooses a Scotch broom, but Beixi can't think of anything to match it with.

In the second round, Beixi chooses a plant native to Wasteland, the flaming poinciana. Xitong quickly matches the red tree to phoenixes. But when it's her turn to pick a plant for her sister, she hears a crowd of people in the greenhouse cheering about her. Xitong hides until they all leave, too shy to approach them.

After some light teasing from her family, she shows a picture of a butterfly orchid. Beixi fails to match it with something poetic, so Xitong wins again.

In the end, Xitong wins Grass Battle. According to the wager the sisters made, Beixi has to do a documentary series on Cloud traditional styles.

Connections

-When Qing Yumo and Jiang Xitong enter the contest to determine the uniform for the summer festival in Striking Beauty, Yumo notices the crowd of supporters for Xitong and assumes that she had to hire or find people to support the classical Cloud look. But here, Xitong is clearly shy and nervous outside academic situations.

-Jiang Xitong and Beixi may prefer different fashion styles, but they both are studious and diligent. In all of Xitong's Reflections, especially in Azure Porcelain, she goes into long oral essays based on how much research she's done on Cloud styling. And in the TV Partners' Reflections, Wasteland Impression and Poem of the Wild, Beixi writes thick papers on topics from native Wasteland heritage to animal drinking habits.

-The Thousand Autumns Fashion Society also showed up to support Jiang Xitong during the contest in Striking Beauty.

Fun Facts

-In Chapter 3, Beixi makes a comment about pairing a dragon plant with the Firebird Tree. The pairing of dragons and phoenixes is an auspicious pairing, symbolizing fortune and happiness.

-All the plants named in this Reflection are real plants.

-Several cultures and civilizations around the world have unique meanings for flowers, trees, and plants. This is "flower language," or floriography.

[royalsealy]

Met up with a local comm friend to have a picnic and see all the cherry blossoms before their departure!🌸

[meowtifullycute]

Petal Perfection!