About a month ago, I lost my photos. Over 4,000 photos gone. I had relied on the Cloud when I should have relied on hard drive. Lesson learned. Heart broken. Hard drive bought. It was difficult picking up the camera again, as I mourned for those lost pictures. But I finally tried. And this week, I…
Category: Plant Love
Pollination
Just as a honeybee is colored by the blue pollen of a chicory flower, we too are painted by the world we ingest.
Lunchtime in the Garden
A neglected plot of amaranth serves up a bountiful lunch for this male Oregon junco.
#May Photo Challenge 1-31
It was a fun month of following Fat Mum Slim‘s photo challenge. I discovered a lot about the importance of paying attention to the time of day. Lounging around in the morning put my shots at between noon and 4 o’clock. Beautiful blue skies became white glares. Shadows blocked out beautiful faces. Colors simply didn’t read…
Cup of Gold: California Poppy
The spring flowers in a wet year were unbelievable. The whole valley floor, and the foothills too, would be carpeted with lupins and poppies … Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine. And mixed with these were splashes of California…
Dichelostemma capitatum: Don’t Google Its Common Name
“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?” — James Montgomery (British poet, campaigner to end child exploitation) The winter rains have blessed us with a bounty of wildflowers. As I headed out to the mountains last Sunday, I hoped that a break in the rain would give me the opportunity to shoot…
Camera Play: Community Garden
Spring is finally hitting the garden.
Wildflower Love: Lupines
“Now my fine friends, no false moves please. I want you to hand over all the lupins you’ve got.” –Dennis Moore (Monty Python character, poacher of posies) I could start off with hyperbole that waxes the rapture that I have when delved in the botanical world, but let’s face it, wordiness is NOT my thing. So flat…
Living Life Forte 