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Morning Dew
Still being a member of the labor-intensive side of the rat race, I do not get too many opportunities to walk around early in the morning. Spotted these geraniums last Saturday still clinging to tiny...
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Butterfly in the Phlox
“A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought — But no, a butterfly.” ― Arakida Moritake, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (Click on any picture to open the gallery for a closer look!) I...
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Tracking the Bumble Bee
The bumblebees have hit the phlox pretty hard this summer. They crawl around the flower bunches usually spending a lot of time on the underside of the petals. This fellow stayed on the exterior for a...
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Random Zinnias
Charlotte put out some random color zinnia seeds she bought while we were in the Michigan Upper Peninsula. These have begun popping up on the south side of the house. This gallery includes a sampling...
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Friday Fruit Tree Flowers
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” ― Pierce Brown Today’s offering is a review of spring flowers from fruit trees around the area. The flowering crabapple...
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Early Autumn Zinnias
Back to the zinnia bed for a check on how they look as we enter the Autumn months. These are one of the few flowers where we see constant change in the appearance even after the blooms have opened out....
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Looking Back at the Cherry Blossoms
“People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” A peek back at the our cherry tree in the Spring. Even though we get some very nice flowers,...
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2015’s Late Bloomers
Several blooms have opened out in the flower beds over the past few days. Other that the asters, this may be the last hurrah for most of our flowers this year – colder weather is on the way! (Click on...
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Spring Trees
“If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.” – S. Truett Cathy Filed under: Nature,...
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More Experimenting with Lens Extensions
These captures are of our old cherry tree in the back yard. The tree has seen better days, and we have already discussed planting a new one in the opposite end of the back yard. Still it gives us some...
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Sylvain Landry’s Challenge: Depth of Field
Feature picture – grasshopper in the magnolia bed! Zinnias – the same two zinnias from a slightly different angle: Red roses – using the other branches before and behind the subject: Bald Eagle –...
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Thought for a Cold January 13
“Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns.” ― Marty Rubin Filed under: Life, Nature, Photography Tagged: childhood, January, Marty Rubin, pink, returns, rose, roses, summer, thought
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pink or Magenta Flowers
We had many pink or magenta flowers to pick from for this challenge. Here is the short list! (Click on any picture to open the gallery and see them close up!) More ‘pink or magenta’ to be seen at Cee’s...
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DPS Weekly Photography Challenge: Something Shiny
My entry for the ‘Something Shiny’ challenge shows the shiny refractions on the geranium petals after a light rain shower. (Click on the image to get a zoomed-in view!) See more ‘shiny’ submissions at...
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Color Your World Challenge – Pink Flamingo
Probably does not need an explanation! This image is a scan of a capture taken with a Pentax K1000 using ISO 400 film. The time frame is 1986 and we were at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. More...
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Problem Solver
“The hardest things to fix in life are the ones that are working.” ― Quincy Hyacinth Filed under: Life, Nature, Photography Tagged: difficulties, fixes, flowers, hyacinth, pink, Quincy Hyacinth, red
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Big and Tall Sizes
Several of this year’s peonies have grown in epic proportions. These pink peonies grew taller than we have seen in recent years. It is a wonder since all we have had is cold and wet weather. (Click on...
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More Color
Another set of zinnias along the side wall. These have withstood some hot weather with a few very hard thunderstorms mixed in. The other flowers have not done so well. Filed under: Nature, Photography...
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