Goodbye flowers...

It is late on Sunday night... and I am home and sitting next to the fire...

The last two days have been unusually sunny and beautiful, but it is wild and wet outside tonight. The weather is promised to be especially harsh the next couple of days. Winter time is always wet and cold, but it is the wind that keeps us housebound and inside. Wind blowing up to 60mph isn't unusual... and it turns the rain and hail into missiles.

Our poor little fuchsia bush in the front garden is holding on to a few last blooms, but I fear that they will be gone after this windy week. I took a few moments this morning to enjoy the last of the blooms... hope that you enjoy them too!







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Today's Random Pic...

My mother's hand







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It happened several weeks ago…

I have downloaded my pictures a thousand times… but this time I lost around 600 photos. Yep… 600… Please don’t ask me what happened. I don’t know. I was downloading them just like I always do when suddenly the camera battery died. I changed batteries, but the photos were gone. They are not on my camera or the computer. Ouch! 600 photos… To be honest I don’t even know what all I lost. I know that I lost a ton of pictures of a dauphin playing just off shore… losing those makes me sad… I also know that I lost a lot of macro (extreme close-up) photos that I had taken in my garden. Several weeks have passed, but I am still a bit mad about it! Thankfully, I didn’t lose anything sentimental or irreplaceable!

So… in honor of my lost pictures I am going to post a couple of macro shots that I took in the front garden. Hopefully, I won’t lose any more anytime soon!















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A Few more flower pics

One of the things that I love about this time of year are the wildflowers. There is a small field behind a church here that is just full of bluebells. Here are a few pics...
















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A study in flowers

Here are just a few quick pics that I took yesterday of my neighbor's tulips. I took them over a 30min period whenever it stopped raining long enough for me to go out and snap a few pics. Thankfully the sun came out during the non-rainy times and gave me some good light to shoot these.





















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A Study in Flowers (pt. 2)

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a study in flowers (pt 1)

Last evening was such an amazing time. I had tons of work that needed to be done around the house, but I ended up spending most of the evening in the front garden. I really don't think that there is anything better than a beautiful summer's evening spent enjoying the front garden. The sun seems to hang in the sky in a prolonged hour-long sunset... the wind is fresh and cool... there is already the smell of peat fires on the breeze... the only sounds are of birds, children playing, and church bells in the distance... neighbors stop by for a chat... and the soil begs to be worked and cultivated. After I did some yard work I took a little time to document the flowers growing in the front garden. It is early in the season, but the lighting was perfect and I could not resist taking a few pics for my mom.

Here is the first... more are to come over the next couple of days...







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Flowers (pt.2)

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Flowers (pt.1)

Someone (I'm sure it was my mom) requested some flowers... so because the last two posts were a bit of a downer (recession, coffin ships and all)... I thought that I would post some happy flower pics.














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A follow up

Someone (I have a feeling it was my mother) requested more flower pics.... and since I have several others that I liked I thought that I would oblige.










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Today's Random Pic...

Today's Random Pic... (Before)

Today's Random Pic... (After)

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Happy Mother's Day!

Mom - I hope that you had a great Mother's Day! I miss you and I love you!

I wanted to let you know that I have been really busy taking pictures of the wildflowers for you! I'll be printing them out and putting them in the post soon!

Dee and I are counting the days until we go to FLA (60 days from today)!!!



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Spring pt. 3

One last random spring photo. This one was taken in the local wood. The ground is just thick with these little wild flowers.

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