Garden Madness, Part Three
May. 30th, 2007 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonelvisThree posts in two days? It's like I'm becoming some kind of LiveJournal whore.
I'm not going to post all the shots I took today; if you want to see the latest ones, just start at this point in my Flickr garden photoset.
The chives in bloom. I think I'm going to like the macro focus feature on my camera.
I bought the upright fuchsia because I love these flowers, but don't have a good place to hang them. I had no idea an upright version of the plant existed until I ran across it at Russell'sHouse of Crack Garden Center. Have I mentioned how much I like the macro focus feature? I'm extremely happy with this shot.
I forget what horrible plant I pulled from the front garden so that I could put in another rose. Actually, it might have been a rose that, shall we say, failed to thrive after one of our delightful New England winters. This rose, which is about 5 years old, is a Knock-Out, a Canadian variety that laughs at snow and below-zero temperatures. I swear, one winter it got buried under about 6 feet of accumulated snow (we pile the snow in the front garden), and that summer it was more vigorous than ever. It is easily 4 feet tall, extremely bushy, and just now starting to bloom.
And finally, as promised, a cat photo. I decided to let Miss Inu wander around while I shot pictures of the front garden, and next thing I knew, she was nesting in the cosmos, nibbling on grass and iris leaves. I was torn about cropping out my foot from the lower left of this shot -- after all, the only reason it's there is that I was in such a hurry to take the photo before Inu moved again that I didn't even notice it. But cropping out the foot also means cropping out the tiny white cosmos flower at upper left, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
columbina said he liked the composition as is. I could go either way. The important thing about the shot, anyway, is the contrast of calico and cosmos, which I'm quite pleased with.
I'm not going to post all the shots I took today; if you want to see the latest ones, just start at this point in my Flickr garden photoset.
The chives in bloom. I think I'm going to like the macro focus feature on my camera.
I bought the upright fuchsia because I love these flowers, but don't have a good place to hang them. I had no idea an upright version of the plant existed until I ran across it at Russell's
I forget what horrible plant I pulled from the front garden so that I could put in another rose. Actually, it might have been a rose that, shall we say, failed to thrive after one of our delightful New England winters. This rose, which is about 5 years old, is a Knock-Out, a Canadian variety that laughs at snow and below-zero temperatures. I swear, one winter it got buried under about 6 feet of accumulated snow (we pile the snow in the front garden), and that summer it was more vigorous than ever. It is easily 4 feet tall, extremely bushy, and just now starting to bloom.
And finally, as promised, a cat photo. I decided to let Miss Inu wander around while I shot pictures of the front garden, and next thing I knew, she was nesting in the cosmos, nibbling on grass and iris leaves. I was torn about cropping out my foot from the lower left of this shot -- after all, the only reason it's there is that I was in such a hurry to take the photo before Inu moved again that I didn't even notice it. But cropping out the foot also means cropping out the tiny white cosmos flower at upper left, and
columbina said he liked the composition as is. I could go either way. The important thing about the shot, anyway, is the contrast of calico and cosmos, which I'm quite pleased with.