The showers increased in intensity last week for just one day, so I took a trip back to the rose garden in our local park to see what I could see.
Photo 1: Raindrops on a red rose
Photo 2: Rain on yellow roses
Photo 3: Pink Rose in the rain
Photo 4: View from the top
Photo 5: Rust rose and Grey skies
Photo 6: Weight of water
Photo 7: Rear view of a wet rose
Photo 8: Wet red rose
The joys of finally seeing signs of a little rain. The garden loved it. Hope there will be more soon.
Photo 1: Geranium cluster and raindrops
Photo 2: Fading Betty Boop in the rain
Photo 3: Betty Boop cluster and raindrops
Photo 4: Wet Gardenia
Photo 5: Raindrops on petals
Photo 6: Fresh after the rain
Photo 7: Geraniums in the rain
Stopped at the rose garden in the local park this morning after going for a nice bike ride. Some rather lovely blooms. Flower gardens are my happy place!
Photo 1: Yellow roses
Photo 2:Pink and yellow rose
Photo 3: Pink and White Rose
Photo 4: Variegated rose
Photo 5: Orange mini tea roses
Photo 6: Orange roses
Photo 7: Red rose
Photo 8: Pink roses
I am often out in the garden in the morning with my camera to take advantage of the lovely light. This morning a local resident stopped to ask me whether I would take some portrait photos of his children. I told him I don’t shoot people..only flowers! Think I am going to make that into a t-shirt.
Photos from the garden this morning:
Photo 1: Betty Boop dreaming
Photo 2:Â Better Boop old and new
Photo 3: Abelia small and pretty
Photo 4: Rosebuds
Photo 5: Variegated Rose
Photo 6: Fading pink Rose
Photo 7: Betty Boop and buds
Photo 8: Sun bleached Betty Boop
A Facebook friend, teaching in Afghanistan, invited me to participate in the gratitude challenge. I thought it was a lovely idea and so I added some text to my pics to go with the theme.
Photo 1: Grateful People
Photo 2:Â Charming Gardeners
It was a bit breezy in the garden this morning so not great conditions for floral photography outdoors but there were still some lovely blooms to snap.
Photo 1: Hybrid Tea Roses
Photo 2: Betty Boop opening
Photo 3: Betty boop bud
Photo 4: Betty Boop bloom
Photo 5: Gardenia at the door
Photo 6: Bud over bloom
Photo 7: Frilly pink roses
Photo 8: Geraniums in bloom
The joyful sight of roses in the garden.
Photo 1: Roses in the garden
Photo 2: Roses side by side
Photo 3: Rose cluster
Photo 4: Roses blooming
Photo 5: Peachy pink blooms
Photo 6: Bud and bloom
Photo 7: Rosey
These beautifully shaded roses are still blooming despite the drought and are very pleasing to the eye.
Photo 1: Betty Boop bloom and buds
Photo 2: Infrared Betty Boop bloom and buds
Photo 3: Betty Boop bud right
Photo 4: Betty Boop buds
Photo 5: Betty Boop bud left
Photo 6: Betty Boop emerging bloom
Photo 7: Betty Boop Bloom and bud
Photo 8:Infrared Betty Boop Bloom and buds
Roses on black backgrounds to accentuate the colours and contours.
Photo 1: Pink Rose cluster on black
Photo 2: Tea Rose on black
Photo 3: Peachy pink Rose on black
Photo 4: Tea Rose on black
Photo 5: Yellow Rose on black
Photo 6: Pink Rose on black
Photo 7: Betty Boops on black
The exceptional heat this week combined with the persistent drought had a dramatic effect on the roses. Although they are producing blooms at quite a rapid rate the dry heat seemed to simply melt their petals yielding rather interesting effects. Some of them look like potpourri on a stem!
Photo 1: Sun scorched Rose
Photo 2: Singed petals
Photo 3: Burnt Rose trio
Photo 4: Potpourri on a stem
Photo 5: Sun burnt rose
Photo 6: Duo of sun singed roses
Photo 7: Fried versus Fresh
Photo 8: Sun melted rose
Photo 9: Portrait of a sun burnt rose
