Sweet Peony flowers

I keep seeing these nice buds about to open.

But when I went into the Black Mountain Center for the Arts, there were these sitting on the desk in the office.

I tried taking a phone photo of the rose bush in the sunlight, and there are all these red blobs...not at all like roses.  I'll try again soon.

And the way my brain is gradually getting older - I can't think of the name of these flowers, though I talked about them, and knew the name when I took the photos.  Thanks for the flower identifying app on my phone! It knew peonies when it saw them!