Wordless Wednesdays for Gardeners
Posted in Photography on Apr 7th, 2010
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Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Photography on Apr 7th, 2010
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Posted in Gardening on Feb 11th, 2010
I love petunias, always have. I remember growing red multiflora types from seed years ago so I could have lots of them for the hummingbirds. They seem to love petunias too, especially the red shades. In fact, they like them so much that they often poke holes in the flowers as they go flying around [...]
Posted in Gardening, Misc Rants on Feb 2nd, 2010
It’s hard to go a day without running into something, somewhere that claims to be “New and Improved”. Supermarket shelves are loaded with such items, which in many cases are the same old sad, tired products repackaged in smaller containers (but selling for the same price).
And software designers just can’t resist the urge to add [...]
Posted in Gardening, Photography on Jan 18th, 2010
In this neck of the woods, winter is still holding its grip on everything outdoors. It will be March before anything is flowering out there. Even so, there’s still a nice variety of flowers to photograph inside.
This Pink Star Christmas cactus plant is not very big yet, but its later blooming habit makes it a [...]
Posted in Gardening on Jan 10th, 2010
I recently received these seeds from Hudson Valley Seed Library. They are offering these 16 new Art Packs for 2010 containing heirloom vegetable, herb and flower seed varieties. In addition to having an interesting selection of heirloom varieties, the packets themselves are true works of art.
Each image was created by a different artist to celebrate [...]
Posted in Photography on Dec 28th, 2009
Today I decided to have a little fun and focus on three colors to photograph: red, green and blue. This theme comes courtesy of David Perry’s recent assignment to pick one of the three colors and make a picture that features the color. Restraint is not exactly one of my strong suits, so I decided [...]