Category Archives: Flowers & Plants
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It’s been kind of a fraught day. Here’s a flower from my front porch.
droplets
Was out walking after a soft rain and found two cotinus bushes covered with tiny droplets. The photos would be better if I had had my DSLR with a macro lens, but my phone did pretty well.
early spring
It’s been weirdly warm in our part of the world, hellebores and minor bulbs shooting out of the ground with alarming rapidity. Time to get out the macro lens.
tulips
Even after all these years of living in Skagit Valley, tulip season is strange and surreal. Actually I think it gets weirder all the time.
blooming
The Cymbidium orchid in my kitchen window has been blooming its head off this winter. The flowers look particularly wonderful with sunlight behind them, illuminating the petals.
signs of spring
I always love this moment in mid-January when it starts to feel like spring. Never mind that we will certainly have five more months of gray, rainy weather; there are hellebores and cyclamen and violets and snowdrops and sweet box and witch hazel and the first shoots of daffodils! Every year I have to goContinue reading “signs of spring”
white and gold
This row of trees in Bakerview Park was dropping leaves like rain in the cold still air of yesterday’s freeze. I love them in all their golden tones, but I also love converting autumn photographs into black and white, because the leaves becomes wonderfully white and ghostly.
Sunday spider
Happy Sunday evening! How about a cute lil garden spider? Or if that doesn’t do it for you, some flowers from my garden that I shot back in late summer? I’ve actually spent very little time in my garden this year, shooting or weeding, but I just found these photos in my catalog that IContinue reading “Sunday spider”
shot of color
There aren’t many leaves left on the trees after the last couple of windstorms, but the few that remain are stunning.
Jessamyn Tuttle 