More garden shots ...

[nonelvis]

The new camera has arrived! To celebrate, I took a few more garden shots.



I'm very happy with the camera so far. The photos seem much brighter and crisper than the ones I took with columbina's camera, though admittedly, his is much older and is only 2 megapixels. The Canon PowerShot A630 is 8MP. Eight! For $200! (Insert standard old-person rant here about "why, when I was a lass, you couldn't buy a 1MP camera for less than $500, and you couldn't get it online, and you had to walk to Best Buy in the snow, uphill, both ways ... .")

The columbines are in bloom!

The peas are only about three weeks old and haven't quite reached the bottom of the trellis. In another few weeks they'll be all over it and trying to escape into the next yard.

I love this stripey phlox. Love it. I bought a bunch of phlox on a whim a few years ago because I wanted something that would smother the grass below it. It worked, mostly, though it also smothered the vinca, at least on the sunnier side of the front garden. Oops. The vinca has taken over the less sunny side, though, so I guess we have plant revenge, or at least détente.

Comments

[lunchboy.livejournal.com]

The phlox is gorgeous!

[chanfaina.livejournal.com]

Seriously. It looks good enough to eat.

[aet.livejournal.com]

And SOME of us know from experience that each flower of phlox DOES have a drop of sweet nectar on its base (I guess it was the seasonal lack of vitamins that made us eat the tree buds and flowers each spring. Another plant with similar sweetness was White Deadnettle).

[nonelvis]

Really? I had no idea. I have eaten honeysuckle nectar before, but never phlox nectar.

[nonelvis]

I must say that one of the reasons I bought the new camera in the first place was that I saw the phlox blooming and realized I was never going to get a really vivid photo of it with our existing camera. That phlox, it's an ENABLER.

[platypus]

I'm amazed at how cheap and good modern cameras are. I'm seriously thinking of getting my mom one of the A-series Canons -- she has a 3MP camera that takes about five seconds to start up, by which time the cats aren't doing anything cute anymore. It would feel a little strange for my mom to have a higher-megapixel camera than I do, though... they barely even *make* 3-5MP cameras anymore.

[nonelvis]

I hadn't noticed that until you mentioned it, and then when I went to crutchfield.com to check, sure enough, they only have one 5MP Canon available (the PowerShot A460). At least you can get those cameras pretty cheaply now -- they're selling the A460 for $129.99.

[otherwise-nyc.livejournal.com]

Those are all beautiful!

Congrats on the new camera! I have to send ours in to be repaired while it is still under warranty. I miss it. And it's "only" 6MP. It's a Canon SD600, and I have been very happy with it. Until I dropped it. Mrrrr.

[nonelvis]

I'm glad you like the photos, but you need to learn to stop dropping your electronic equipment ;-)