We had an early spring this year. Or, we had no winter this year. Either way, our flowers have bloomed earlier than usual. We usually don't get flowers on our lupines until mid to late June. These are just a couple of the plants from my garden. Maralee
Day 216 – Macro Lupines
I have one lupine plant that is blooming right now. It had the perfect shades of lavender and purple - my favorite colors. I've done lupines previously but this time I thought I would get up very close and use different apertures. I was going for a narrow depth of field and throwing the background …
Day 175 – A Summer’s Day
Today I woke to pouring rain. But as is typical for this part of Oregon, it can be raining one minute and the sun will be shining the next. Today was no exception. By mid afternoon the sun was shining and the big, black storm clouds were receding into the distance. I went down to …
Day 168 – More Macro from the Garden
I took these photos this morning while there was still some water drops left over from the watering last night. Our strawberry plants are starting to develop the fruit. The only problem I have with the strawberry plants is that we don't have enough of them to get much fruit. We probably will get a …
Day 162 – Lupines
Last year I discovered a small field of lupines next to the parking lot of a local shopping center. What really struck me were the multi-colors. We have a lot of blue/purple lupines here, but this small field had blue, purple, pink, and white. I went back there today and the lupines were there, but …
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