the painted white stripe

the first image…the flower is positioned so well, that it looked like it was painted, along with the strip on the park lot.

the backside of the Cosmos

i love, LOVE, LOVE taking photos of flowers from behind (gosh, that sounds dirty, do you think the flowers think i’ve got a dirty mind?!). most of the time, when the green part of the bud opens to allow the blossom to emerge, it resembles a flower.  i also like to photograph furry stems–because when…

how to bring short stemmed FLOWERS INSIDE…

Almost everyone buys a few flowers for outside in the springtime. A side effect to spring fever, i think. We plant them in beds and in pots. But few flowers come with a long stem for our standard size vases. So those who leave their flowers outside, enjoy them for a few seconds as they…

my garden shines

wow. changes happen overnight…i suppose the expression, “When nature calls” it means something completely different for me. i feel the need to go outside every morning to see what is new.

set them against blue…

cosmos, joseph’s coat roses, african daisies…all came from my gardens this morning. Yummy

a lost cat, that has found me

this lost kitten (?) found me. It took a few weeks before she would come close to me. i saw her only at dusk & dawn. But this morning, she found me & asked for some food, which i did. I gardened all morning & she stayed with me for a few hours. I think…

the sun is backlit…

i suppose to be truthful, i would have titled this photo as ‘the suns are backlit’ but that would be a bit crazy, right?

my first roses stun me

these are Joseph’s coat roses. The bloom color can vary from rose to rose…most tend to lean this color.