Fantastic flower pictures! I really enjoy the various colors, as well as the different leaves and stems! Wonderful!
I hope I'm wrong, but that might be purple loosestrife. If it is, pull it all up and burn it. (Sorry to be a downer.) If it isn't, send me some seeds!
The gommint should institute a bounty on purple loosestrife. Bad stuff.
The flowers are just beautiful! I can imagine you finding yourselves as a stop on a benefit garden tour.
I'm thoroughly enchanted by water lilies--they were never a part of the natural landscape where I grew up, so even the most common species seem exotic to me. I can't tear my eyes from your photo.
Very nice pictures, landscape, and rock. Do you have mosquitos breeding in your pond? Not to get personal or anything...
Oooo
Lotus
Om
Beauteous!
The first two photos are lovely, then I scroll down to the lilly and say, "oh, my f---ing gawd!" What an exquisite photograph. Like Corax, I could not tear myself away from that image.
Very nicely done, indeed.
Not that you need it, but there's a great book out called "Real Life Digital Photography" that a friend of mine co-wrote. I got it and it is excellent. Lot of great photoshop info too. You may find it can take your work to the next level. Again, not that you need improvement!
OWL--Thank you. It's a great time of the year up here in the pacific northwest. We just had a heatwave and everything is blooming like crazy.
Cervantes-- I don't think we have purple loosestrife. We looked it up, and it's not what is growing here. I think the previous owners planted these purple flowers. They're quite fragrant.
CCorax--The water lillies are especially beautiful right now. White and pink. They always look like lotus blossoms to me.
JSK-- No mosquitoes, we have had fish in the pond that feast on mosquito larvae. Also, the tree swallows come out around right about this time of the evening, and skim across the top picking off the choice insects.
Seavu- Welcome. Thanks for stopping by.
Hey SMSS-- Tell me more about digital photography. Who wrote the book? I'm working on a post for next week with some photos I took yesterday of BALD EAGLES!!!
OMG-- I got photos of bald eagles-- flying, roosting in a tree. I took pictures through a pair of binoculars. Just wait til next week.
Well, RD, go to Amazon to see the book and read the blurbs on it. It is comprehensive and clearly written. Sean Duggan is the author that I know. I don't have enough time to read it much right now, which is tough, 'cuz I want to soak it all in. Your photos have really inspired me. I bow down to your talent. You have good eyes.
Sean Duggan? I recognized the name and looked him up on Alibris (an alternative to Amazon where you can order from independent bookstores). He's the co-author of Photoshop Artistry 7, which I have. It is a dense but extraordinarily good book. All the New Riders books are great.
Real Life Dig is probably worth every penny you spend, three times over. Hmmm. Maybe I need a copy!
SMSS & CCorax-- Thanks for the tip on Sean Duggan. I'm going to look him up. I'm intrigued by the title Real Life Dig. Sounds interesting.
RD, here is a poem to go with the lovely flower pictures. I found it at Kos, posted by Armando, and I thought you and others who visit here might like to read it on this Memorial Day. It was composed by Moina Michael based on "In Flanders Field":
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
Dear Rexroths Daughter,
The purple may be wild purple flox - mine blooms briefly in the spring, and then dies back. The flox is an annual, but reseeds. The reseeding may take the flox anywhere in my garden, but it is welcome wherever it takes hold. I love it!
SB-Gypsy-- Thanks for that tip. I was checking some of our gardening books, and I was leaning toward wild purple flox too. I hope so. That would make me very happy.
Thanks for stopping by.
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