Love the fever dream shot. And the muddy driveway image is also pretty interesting. One of the pictorialists (sorry, can't remember his name) thought mud was the ideal environmental condition for his photography. He liked the reflective surfaces afforded by mud and used it along with stormy weather to create romantic landscapes to great effect.
You know, John, I can see where that photographer is coming from! think it's worth going all in on mud season and attempting to find its photo-worthy side because it is new and different and might be a good challenge these next couple of months! Thanks for sharing.
I love the greenhouse photos. Many years ago I worked in a garden center with 15 greenhouses. It was rewarding planting and caring for so many plants, also exhausting! Thanks for triggering a fond memory. There's some beautiful plants in your photos! Happy mud season, may it pass quickly!
Wow Pamela, thanks for sharing that lovely memory, I am glad my photographs took you on that reverie. You must have learned quite a lot at that garden center! There's so much I don't know but at least I was able to plant some tulips in the ground last fall, the old classic red ones with yellow centers that naturalized so freely at my mom's house back in NJ - I'm looking forward to seeing them again.
Diana, It is wonderful that you planted some tulips remind you of your mom’s house in NJ. I love when bulb plants get naturalized like that and spread. It’s a beautiful expression of nature having her way with the landscape. My parents were both gardens so I grew up around it and that job was a stepping stone to a 25 year career as a florist. I’ve worn a lot of different hats!
It's wonderful having that connection to your parents through a love of plants and flowers. It runs in my family too (my parents always had a vegetable garden and I always thought that was a normal thing that everyone had - not so!). I love having garden heirlooms - the tulips I planted were in fact dug up from my Mom's house - a big clump that popped up in one of the vegetable garden beds (when I lived there I transplanted all of them inside the vegetable garden to make a border because the deer ate them outside of the fence). So I am looking forward to seeing my friends again!
Love the fever dream shot. And the muddy driveway image is also pretty interesting. One of the pictorialists (sorry, can't remember his name) thought mud was the ideal environmental condition for his photography. He liked the reflective surfaces afforded by mud and used it along with stormy weather to create romantic landscapes to great effect.
You know, John, I can see where that photographer is coming from! think it's worth going all in on mud season and attempting to find its photo-worthy side because it is new and different and might be a good challenge these next couple of months! Thanks for sharing.
I love flower photos! Those so pretty!
Thanks so much, Adrienne!
I love the greenhouse photos. Many years ago I worked in a garden center with 15 greenhouses. It was rewarding planting and caring for so many plants, also exhausting! Thanks for triggering a fond memory. There's some beautiful plants in your photos! Happy mud season, may it pass quickly!
Wow Pamela, thanks for sharing that lovely memory, I am glad my photographs took you on that reverie. You must have learned quite a lot at that garden center! There's so much I don't know but at least I was able to plant some tulips in the ground last fall, the old classic red ones with yellow centers that naturalized so freely at my mom's house back in NJ - I'm looking forward to seeing them again.
Diana, It is wonderful that you planted some tulips remind you of your mom’s house in NJ. I love when bulb plants get naturalized like that and spread. It’s a beautiful expression of nature having her way with the landscape. My parents were both gardens so I grew up around it and that job was a stepping stone to a 25 year career as a florist. I’ve worn a lot of different hats!
It's wonderful having that connection to your parents through a love of plants and flowers. It runs in my family too (my parents always had a vegetable garden and I always thought that was a normal thing that everyone had - not so!). I love having garden heirlooms - the tulips I planted were in fact dug up from my Mom's house - a big clump that popped up in one of the vegetable garden beds (when I lived there I transplanted all of them inside the vegetable garden to make a border because the deer ate them outside of the fence). So I am looking forward to seeing my friends again!
Diana, I was hoping you would say that the tulips are heirlooms. I have some heirloom iris in my gardens that were from my aunt via her daughter.
Those cacti are so dreamy! 💗🌵
They were so interesting and varied too! Not pictured - a particularly hairy one which my camera was not attracted to in the slightest!
What a lovely set of images to brighten up mud season - I do love the 'Fever Dream' shot, warms me up just looking at them!
Thank you, Lin! The 'Fever Dream' photograph is totally over the top but I guess I just needed that dose of color, if only for a little while!
I needed this today. 🌺 We are, indeed, in mud season—literally and metaphorically. And the only way out of it is through.
Precisely... hang in there, Jen. Saturated colors are giving me life right now.