Here are a baker’s dozen of my favourite garden shots of 2019.
Tag: macro photography
Silent Sunday – Monarch Mimic
The colouring on the Viceroy butterfly closely resembles that on the Monarch butterfly. The difference is in the black smile across the lower wing.
Six on Saturday – five bees and a strawberry
It’s the last long weekend of the summer – I’ll be relaxing but the bees are as busy as ever!
Six on Saturday – Volunteers & Vistas
All week we’ve been bombarded with heat wave warnings for this Canada Day long weekend – we’re lucky to live close enough to the lake to enjoy relatively cool breezes but I finished mot of my heavy chores Thursday evening. A sweet smell wafted over me while mowing and I realized the Milkweed was opening. […]
What I Learned Today – Stachys – another kind of corn
A good friend and wonderful gardener told me last weekend that she cuts off the flower stalks from Lamb’s Ears – Stachys byzantina! I was a bit aghast, but she said she found the flowers a distraction when the main attraction was the soft fuzzy leaves that form a woolly groundcover. Turns out she’s not […]
Six on Saturday – 5 Peonies and an Iris
I was going to write about vegetables today — all appearances to the contrary I do grow a few in the garden. I’m not very good at it though so I’ve been putting it off, and when I walked about yesterday and realized that the peonies were at their height of glory I decided to […]
Comings and Goings
It’s that miraculous time of year where, every day it seems, something new is starting to bloom while something else is starting to fade away. Peonies are in full bloom everywhere now. Yes, they’re gorgeous when open; but really – don’t you just have a tiny gasp upon spotting a perfect flower bud a day […]
