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The Dahlia is a showy garden flower which comes in many sizes and arrangements of pedals. There are annual varieties that can be grown by seeds for bedding plants and the potato like tubers that are more spectacular large hybrid blooms, good for cut flower arrangements.

I have always had a thing for color, in my youth it was crayons, chalk and finger paints. My teachers in school would never let me sit by the windows in class, which had views of pastures with cows, birds and flowers, so I'm guessing it was because I was to busy looking at the world of color out those windows, instead of listening. At a young age I was given cameras for gifts, so I clicked lots of photos, which I still have today, many are mostly of family, friends and animals. I bought my first camera in my early 20's, a Konica view finder 35mm, loved that camera, then I graduated to a Yashica with all the different lenses. That camera didn't last long in the jungle of Venezuela, the mold claimed it after 2...