27 Thursday Sep 2018
Posted in Photography
It has been warm lately, even though it is now fall according to the calendar. Cosmos flowers are still doing very well, especially some white ones.
White Cosmos.
White Cosmos.
Green Sweat Bee on Cosmos flower.
Even the Clematis plants were doing well with the help of abundant rain this past week.
Clematis.
Clematis.
I checked up on the Monarch butterfly chrysalis. It has turned to a darker green. In two or three more days a butterfly will emerge?
Monarch chrysalis.
08 Wednesday Jun 2016
Posted in Photography
We are having an unusual Spring, with wild fluctuations in temperature, too much rain, lots of wind. In our yard, weeds look like they love it, I cannot keep up with them. After an auspicious start, peonies wilted or even rotted. Only roses and clematises are still looking good, as seen in the following photos I just took this afternoon.
Knockout Rose, the most popular these days. You see them everywhere.
Heritage Rose, small but with outstanding color and texture.
Clematis, a faithful flower that keeps coming back year after year.
Clematis after wind blew off its petals.
17 Sunday May 2015
Posted in Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
This challenge, https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/enveloped/, made me initially wonder how to illustrate “enveloped” with photos. However, this morning I went out to check our clematis vines after last night’s rain and I saw that many flowers had escaped from their envelopes like the one shown below.
Clematis envelope or bud.
The blooms, laced with rain drops, were of all shapes, sizes, and variations of purple.
Clematis
Clematis
Clematis
All of these flowers come from the same vines planted 28 years ago. It blooms faithfully year after year.
16 Tuesday Dec 2014
Posted in Photography
Between now and the end of the year, I will post some of the photos I took in 2014 that did not make it, for one reason or another, into any of this year’s posts. I thought you may like them, even though there is no common theme to them.
Cormorants
Chicadee
Cardinal
Clematis
