Art – Page 23 – Ellis Hollow

Belated June bloom day scans

Late again as usual.

Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here.

Allium ‘Hair’

Arisaema

Aruncus

Camassia?

Rosa ‘Cuisse de Nymphe, sweet bedstraw

Garlic scape

Gooseberries

Nectaroscodum

Phlomis

Digitalis

‘Picture This’ photo contest entry (Honorable mention)

Update [6/2/2011]: Picked up an honorable mention.

Here’s my entry in this month’s Picture This contest. Was wandering around Sunday morning looking for backlighting opportunities. This camassia beckoned, though not for backlighting.

Belated May bloom day scans

Sorry these are late. Busy spring. And it’s not like I’ve been spending a lot of time in the garden, either. Can barely stay ahead of the grass, much less the weeds. Oh well.

Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here.

Leucojum vernum and thalia daffs

Dicentra spectabilis complete with water and pollen, which is pretty much what this spring has been about.

‘Picture This’ photo contest entry

It’s been a real pleasure this month to have Picture This photo contest theme where I’ve had the plants, the time and the light to actually use the theme to stretch my modest photography skills. Thank you Rob (and the folks at GGW) for setting this up.

Unfortunately, I still haven’t made the image that I wanted. I’ve been working the garden on the few evenings that we’ve had some great evening light — and especially this one hellebore. But I don’t think I quite got it.

Here’s my entry:

And here are some of the runners-up. I actually like this image better, but don’t think it fits the light theme:

Ditto for this one:

Page down to other posts for the last few weeks for some of the others that didn’t make the cut.

April bloom day scans

April bloom day is always one of my favorites. I can concentrate all the little gems from around an otherwise pretty bleak (though greening-up quickly) landscape onto the scanner bed. Only thing better is getting down on my belly to shoot these gems in situ.

Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here.