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These photographs feature stunning color and beauty and are definitely a sign that spring has arrived.
Outdoor enthusiast and hobbyist photographer capturing perspectives and views from the lens of a camera. From gardens to mountains, from macro to landscapes, xFrame photographs are my way of immortalizing a moment of nature's time before they are gone forever....
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Stunning Tulips
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
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