Flora Blanca

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…

Pollination

Just as a honeybee is colored by the blue pollen of a chicory flower, we too are painted by the world we ingest.

#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…

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…