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.
Tag Archives: flowers
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”
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”
blowout
I know that it’s not considered good form to overexpose or blow out photographs on purpose, but sometimes I do it anyway, just because I love how delicate structures like dill seedheads attenuate and discolor against the brilliant background. I took these photos about a month ago, right before cutting off several umbels to makeContinue reading “blowout”
roses and other signs of June
It’s the middle of June, which for once has actually been occasionally June-like around here (although admittedly it’s raining right now). Roses are rioting and all the other early summer flowers are doing their thing. It’s an excellent time to take the macro lens out for an airing. I love my macro lens.
spring colors
Because when the sun shines in spring and the garden leaps into bloom, you just have to go out with the camera. In between weeding sessions, of course.
tulip season
This past week has been the height of the tulip bloom here in Skagit. I’d been driving back and forth to the art show at Rexville, keeping an eye on the blooms, and finally one morning I took myself out to the fields at sunrise and watched the morning fog roll over the tulips andContinue reading “tulip season”
daffs and swans
Fields of daffodils, snow on the hills, swans on the wing. This is a pretty place.
Jessamyn Tuttle 