Which is to say, the garden at home.
Self has spent much time in it, the past few days. Here are pictures of two of her ‘most-grown.’
Going to see Hostiles (Christian Bale! Rosamund Pike!) in a few.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Tag: Flowers
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Superbowl Sunday 2018: Her First at Home in Three Years Side Yard: This Viburnum was barely two feet high in 2015. Now, it’s almost as tall as the eaves. -
Been so long since self took pictures of her garden.
Since this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is VARIATIONS ON A THEME, self wandered her backyard looking for appropriate subjects.
Here, her helleborus, having survived years of neglect (approx. three years) is nevertheless getting ready to bloom:
Helleborus, Last Week of January 2018 
More Helleborus! Just throwing this in: The deck is very weathered and obviously needs a lot of work. But — variations on a theme!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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“One day they’ll be painted over, completely erased . . . “
— Krista Stevens, explaining this week’s Photo Challenge on The Daily Post
The evanescent is powerful: whether it’s a fleeting moment of sunshine in London, or the moment just before the seeds of a dandelion are scattered by the wind, or the delicacy of woodland fungi, or a collection of bird shots, or a moment when sun pierces the cloud cover around Aoraki/Mount Cook, or a 10-year-old photo of New York’s Grand Central, one never forgets the moment that is captured.
Hats off to these six bloggers:
- Dr. D in Oz
- Lin’s Doodles
- letting nature back in
- lindylecoq
- The 15th Day
- The Roaming CounselorThe Roaming Counselor
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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The Daily Post Photo Challenge this week is TINY:
Capture something at a smaller scale. Create your own mini-scene.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Overhead View of an Intersection, Upper East Side, New York City 
Moon Over Park Avenue, New York, May 2016 
Small flowers, Bletchley Park, Just Outside Londonds Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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It warmed up this week.
Self is still in Mendocino.
She likes walking to the bookstore on Main Street, Gallery Bookshop, and then taking pictures of the headlands. Because she was trying to find subjects for this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge, SEASONS, she focused on the flowers in the meadow in front of her:
Flowers are popping up in the meadow across from the Gallery Bookshop on Main Street, Mendocino. 
More Flowers, Same Meadow 
These flowers are tiny. Self had to do an extreme close-up. Good thing her fingers didn’t shake as much as they usually do. Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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Such an interesting Photo Challenge this week on The Daily Post!
Find a piece of art, recreate or re-enact it.
Or take a new version of one of your photos.
What self chose to do was use this picture of a painting that hung in her cottage at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig. It was 2014, her first time in that magical place. She didn’t note the name of the artist, boo:
Self in her studio in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland: 2014 Then she went combing through her archives, and found a picture she took in her brother-in-law’s apartment in New York City, a vase of red flowers standing in his kitchen window:
Brother-in-Law’s Apartment, New York City: March 2015 Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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Pansy: Hungtington Botanical Gardens, Pasadena -
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge, CLOSE UP, is all about the details.
Street signs are so fascinating. This one’s in York. Self can never get enough of those birds in Russell Square:
Russell Square, London These buttery yellow roses were in full bloom when she arrived at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in June:
Roses near the Farmyard Cottages at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig: June 2015 Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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The Daily Post Photo Challenge this week, provided by Brie Anne Demkiw, is EARLY BIRD.
“I love sunsets as much as the next photographer, but I began to recognize a pattern: many of my best photos were taken early.”
In Cousin’s House, in a Suburb of Calgary 
Roses are best when plucked early in the morning. 
Early Morning in a Garden: Happiness! Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is EARLY BIRD.
Part of the prompt on The Daily Post website:
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a morning person. From early childhood I was up with the sun, and it always came naturally to me . . . when I began taking photography more seriously . . . I realized the benefits that waking early had on my photos.
Gondola Stop, Venice: Before the Crowds Appear In scanning through her photographs, self found a set of pictures she took on a very early morning in Venice. She’d signed up for a tour of the Doge’s Palace, and to make sure she got there in plenty of time (It was a morning tour), she left the apartment she was sharing with Margarita Donnelly in Ca’ San Toma several hours early. And was rewarded with the thrill of seeing San Marco Square practically devoid of people (i.e. tourists)
Can You Believe This is Venice in Late April? Somewhere near the Hotel Danieli Anyhoo, the Doge’s Palace was all right. But the real thrill, self realized later, was having San Marco Square and environs almost entirely to herself.
The photographs are time-stamped. With CALIFORNIA TIME. Pardon the confusion.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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