Spring/Early Summer 2011

in my front yard

 

also in my front yard

love dogwoods

not sure if this is a passion flower or not - but it's pretty fascinating.

I love these - don't know what they're called - and they look amazing even without the blooms.

love the way lupins catch the raindrops

Snowy Moment

Snow so rarely happens here.  For a few days, all was magic. Then it rained again. Had to act quick to get these pics.

snow caps

snow on dusty

bare embrace

ornamental figs

snowy bush

frosty hangings

garnet snow shrub

reaching out

branching out

iris snowed

snowy Madrona

petal freeze

black on white

Olympia Mushrooms

amanita family

amanita boll

caramels?

 

fairy umbrellas

a place to land

autumn around town

autumn reflections

shifting

rising

 

petals fall

piles of yellow

autumnal translucence

rain petals

walking in the rain

 

dewy web on autumn dogwood

Since Then…

wow…long time no upload…

got a new camera, traveled back east, came back, and here’s a few snaps from late summer:

Olympic mountains ahead

late stages of fireweed?

 

Himalayan Honeysuckle beads

I love the little drops of rain hanging onto the stamens

 

Heron in Budd Inlet

Dew Drop Inn

dinner time

garden on Puget

if only you could smell this spicy little lantana -

Licorice Fern at Tumwater Falls

I believe this is JewelWeed, antidote for Poison Ivy

Tumwater downstream; Salmon struggling up those falls, ending beginning cycles.

spring heralds

hanging on the cattails

go here for the sound of the redwing blackbird (and better pictures!)

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-winged_Blackbird/sounds

pink rhodies

azaleas in the evening sun

pacific northwest native

another pacific northwest native

my new camera phone really sucks, and just doesn’t do the job the way my old one did – oh I miss it!  so many pics of groves of these blossoms came out blurry or not focused on all planes.  For some good photos of spring things go back to last year’s posts.  what a difference a camera makes!  I’m shopping around…

daffs in pots

daffs in moss

in my front yard

those spring colours!

soft tufts of ? what did we name these?

the town is full of these blossoms right now

pale pink blossoms

pink buds with blossoms

these beauties are everywhere too

white star magnolia close-up

star magnolia against the sky

one of those trees I photograph across the seasons

february chirpings

pink chirps

any minute now...

dripping spring

sadly,

very very sadly, the screen on my previously trusty little cell phone has gone black.  I therefore had to get a new cellphone.  Though both are by sony ericsson, I have to say the camera quality is altogether not the same.  Most particularly, this camera is much less steady, and most pics come out blurry. Another frustrating difference is that before, I could hold my camera up close to a flower and get a wonderful shot of it.  This camera seems not to focus on the closest field but the one just behind.  That combined with insta blur issues is wreaking havoc with my fun filled photo life, and affecting my little blog.

You might say: why don’t you get a real camera?  money, for one.  For two: I like the portability and immediacy and simplicity of a good camera in my phone – only one gadget to carry.

alas…phone companies and manufacturers being what they are…I’ll do my best.

february flowers

not open yet

early signs

budding blossoms

red buds at twilight, spring lovers delight

Indian plum blossoms come right after snowdrops

beginning blossoms silhouette

for Spring:

http://victorials.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/for-spring/

if the link doesn’t work, go to victorials.wordpress.com and find “for spring”.