Week 36 - 2017 in Photographs

Day 245

More of summer's flowers and a hint of the fall to come. A shift in dominate colors. Morning mist on a summer warmed lake.

Day 246

Not sure the sunflowers will make it to full maturity with crowns of seeds but their blooming has made me happy. They are great subjects.

Day 247

Day 248

The Icelandic Poppies have been compensation for the demise of my Oriental Poppy bed. 

Day 249

My focus, in more ways than one, has been on flowers and the garden and the deck. 

Day 250

 And now the changing of seasons.

Day 251

Week 28 - 2017 in Photographs

Day 190
California Poppy

 When the flowers bloom in the high country you have to pay homage. For me that is capturing them in photographs. We have a garden club here in the high country. I could never belong because I take what I get and love them natural but this year after the massacre of my salmon colored poppy bed I actually built a flower bed and planted more poppies safe from people who don't watch where they are driving.

Oriental poppies, like those destroyed, bloom once a year so I bought California Poppies and Icelandic poppies to fill in until the new orientals bloom next summer. What a joy.

Day 191
Icelandic Poppy

Day 192
Oriental Poppy

 The garden club is having a grand reception in August and they asked the artists to add flowers to our airport exhibit where the reception is being held. Day 192 and 193 are two of the three photographs I am having printed on canvas this week to hang for that show. 

Day 193

But flowers hold my focus just so long. All photographers have favorite subjects and I am basically landscape. And skyscapes.

Day 194

Besides I had been home too long and so I took off to a nearby wildlife refuge in search of water fowl and grasses. And reflections and waterscapes which will be featured in the week ahead.

Day 195

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Landlocked pelicans

Week 39 - 2016 in Photographs

Day 268

 The leaves are beginning to turn golden in the high country and a killing frost can come at any time. So it seemed appropriate to dedicate this week to flowers. If they are not in a greenhouse like the hibiscus below they will not be with us much longer.

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Week 35 - 2016 in Photographs

Day 243

 Definitely a hodgepodge week. I was busy with waning days of gardening and getting my deck built and staining it. Too much to do in too little time it seemed and so the camera stayed in the camera bag more than it should. In fact some of the photographs in this week's blog were actually taken the week before. But then the Icelandic poppy seeds I had planted years ago decided to reach maturity and bloom.

Day 244

And the rains brought more wild flowers out to dance in the late August breezes. The monsoonal flows continued and so every afternoon was graced with new arrangements of clouds casting their shadows on the surrounding mountains. No need to go far afield to capture a landscape or cloudscape.

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Or a fantastic dawn. My new deck is proving to be a wonderful platform for photographing the dawns.

Day 239

And new to the approaching fall are the morning fogs. More of these next week.

Day 245