Hope Darby Writings

While touring through Romania, I made it my goal to capture a flower in every town we stayed in. Everywhere we turned, the streets are lined with splashes of red and orange, flower boxes serve as medians through lanes of traffic, and every single house has a leafy, canopied garden filled with knots and circles of the most amazingly fragant bulbs of color I’ve ever seen.

Here are just a few to serve as appetizers for the rest of our travels. These are from as far south as Bucharest, through Sinaia, Aref, Poenari, Sighisoara, Brasov, Curtea de Arges and up unto the Carpathian Mountains into Transylvania:

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Pretty, no?? Click on each one for a much closer shot. You may even see a Romanian insect or two