Sorry guys but I have not been able to get out and about much these days. But I have been working in the garden and it looks beautiful this year. (All the rain we have been getting)

Hope you all enjoy the Pics. ;)

center_of_paeonia

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center_of_attention 

purple_flower

small_pink_bells

geranium

bigonia   (wrong spelling) begonia

Bye the way, I tried to get this set into a slide show and could not get it to work. Whats up with that? Never had a problem before and I paid my Dues. Lol!         

Garden

Local Bone Yard

During a break from these rains, I took a walk in the garden.  Not my garden, but a local garden.  This year they went to the ocean.  They have fish swimming in the flower beds, a closer detail, and are currently making a whale.  I'll be posting more once they complete everything, and the plants grow up around them.

On a side trip around the garden, I came across this cat, though the wife said it was a bunny.  She might be right, sometimes I see more of a bunny.

Just went out to learn more about using my exposure time and aputure settings. 

I have new garden lights that make a nice glow in my front garden. I decided to take some photos. 

Let me know how they are. Would like to learn more on how to do night shots. This is a Nikon D40 camera, some limitations at what i can do with it.  Tri pod used also.;)

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1/10,f/13, iso200 

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1/10,f/10, iso200 

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1/10, f/10, iso400 

Nothing to do on Sunday, and it was a beautiful day in Chicagoland... I got my Pal (The Rebel) and my driver (The Spouse) and went to find a garden that I had seen at lunch time on Friday.
Garden Tours
Another shot
The Guide
Droopy
Giant
Green Giant
Apples

Then we all went to see what else we could find:
Doe on the lawn
Got an Itch?
Itch2
River Bank

We ended up at a special place that we had only seen signs for, (on I-55) but had never stopped to see. Lincoln National Cemetary:
Our National Ensign
Square
Dress Right Dress
A Man Keeps Company With A Loved One
B & W Version

And on the way home we saw this:
Round Barn in Manhattan, IL

Too many pictures, as usual, sorry!

Thanks for looking.

My cousin got married earlier this evening. I got some nice pictures of the scenery and the beautiful cake that they had.

Garden Entrance
Garden Chairs
Garden Wall and Flowers
Wedding Cake
Cake Closeup

Yellow  Corvette
This guy would buy a Jeff Gordon flag everyday.  This is what would happen to it.  Everyone has to have someone they don't like!  
The famous Michigan Wave
This is a pic of our neighbors
garden. He uses it to get girls to talk to him.  I love what his  camper says.
 No.7 Color
Do you think he can fly?

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My church (Garden of Grace United Church of Christ, www.gogucc.com) recently joined the United Church of Christ (UCC - www.ucc.org), and while attending the Southeast Conference this past weekend, I did some picture taking...  

My entry for the bi-weekly challenge for Strangers is (ALAS!) too late, but I liked this picture so much I thought I'd share it anyway.  The Beautiful Stranger  I believe it also fits the Emotion challenge this week.

Also, Niki in the Garden, the world's largest exhibition of internationally renowned artist Niki de Saint Phalle's outdoor sculptures ever presented, at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, was a great source for intersting subjects.  Here is one example:  Waterplay

Haven't posted in a while, thought today was a good day!

I got out of work late today, and the sun was setting so I decided to go across the street to MSU again to take a few shots.  

I was about 1/2 mile away from the Greenhouses at the Horticultural Gardens.  I actually took this photo last year.  I wanted to recreate it tonight, but there was large truck of mulch in front of the entrance.  

The sun was most of the way down when I got to the gardens tonight, so I played around with some of the settings on my new D70s.  This Lamp along the garden path looked kind of interesting.  There aren't many flowers out yet, but the Gardens are beautiful when they are.  On the way off campus, I stopped to snap a picture of Sparty.  Hopefully I'll have time to do something different tomorrow.

Hi All

More of Descanso Gardens, featuring the trees and structures ('Further along' is my favorite)

Canopy
Stream
Tea House
Pond
Forest
Trail
Further along
A clearing
Shady spot

Okay, I couldn't resist sticking some blooms in...,
Pinks
Gold
Lilac
Hot pink

Have a great weekend,
Mima

Pop goes the garden....,

Well, these are not your conventional "signs", no text, just visions of loveliness (location is Descanso Gardens in/around Pasadena);

01    02    03    04    05    06      07    

08      09    10    11  12    13      14  

Toodles
Mima

Baby Bird Mouths

HH Succulents

Iron Gate

Foliage

Trio

Psychedelic Lettuce

I have been visiting Photographica for the past several weeks and must say that I have enjoyed looking at everyone's photos.  And now it is time for me to join in the fun!  My debut submission is of a quaint little Garden I found in the alleyways of Old Montreal.  This garden was located among a group of open-air shops, and was truly a treasure to find on a beautiful summer day in the old city.  

It's been a while but I suppose it's better than nothing. And it appears that I am here just in time to add my entry for before and after.

But while I am here I should also show what I've been up to. I visited my favorite place, the botanical gardens near my house. Although not everything is in bloom there are still many things to look at. And if you are feeling up to it you can trek back to the Japanese Tea  House. The trail will take you over this bridge

And I finally took my camera with me.  Here are a couple of shots that were "worthy of sharing".  :)  Have a good one!

Fountain shot one
Fountain shot two
Surreal flowers
Little garden

Hi! My name is Dena aka Jellybean.  I just celebrated my one month anniversary with posting on this site and enjoy every minute of it.

 Hmmm....what to tell....I live just outside of  Washington DC.  I am lucky enough to be able to visit my favorite  museums on the weekends.

My favorite time of year is   fall.  I love watching the storms that roll through during this weather.  It also makes the local  waterfalls run.  I love the sound of running water.  

I really enjoy  gardening   and arts and crafts. It helps me when my 6 yr old or 2 yr old have driven me up the wall by either coloring the ottoman (yes, with markers) or wanting me to feed them every 5 seconds.  Growing boys are like locusts!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed a peek at my life.  Let me hear from ya....

These are some more from the MO Botanical Garden.  Hope y'all enjoy!
lily pad
orchid
bridge
Japanese garden
some kind of flower
water dance

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this.

My boys were so proud of themselves.

Since I couldn't do anything else yesterday, I went out into the back yard and found a couple of interesting shots (and made one).

This bug decided to pop out of its skin on a lily leaf.

Then it was lunch time for this one.

I found a piece of driftwood at the beach and arranged a purple flower on it.

I hope you like the shots.

David