White Orchid

I actually found this in the wild and shot it with my cell phone. Well, the wild around here was at Safeway. :-) The cell phone part is true! I love orchids. Too bad I don't have what it takes to grow them.

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Just Yellow

Not sure what this is but I like the solitude of this very small flower. Serenely sitting there.....

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Forrest Trillium

I love Trillium flowers. Very short lived and a little hard to find. They start out white and then pinkish, like this one, as they age. I think I got this one right! :-)

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Looking Down

Like it says, looking down. :-)

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Off The Page

I love Crocus. They are the first flower of the season and I'm compelled to photograph them every year. But, how many of the same images of a Crocus do I need to post every year. Hence the edit. I had seen this before and decided to give it a shot and I really like it. The actual image of the flowers are largely untouched, just the perimeter modified.

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Fox Glove in the Fall

Walking up a service road to a small lake for a little fishing & photo time this past fall. Too dreary for fish to be biting but the flowers were awesome!

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How I wish it were Spring

This was absolutely one of my favorite shots this past spring of the Oregon State Capitol cherry trees. It was incredible!

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Help Me!

This was an easy one to capture because he couldn't get out! I heard the buzzing of wings and had a look, took a photo. I'm sure he made it out okay though......

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Weeds are flowers too

This is one of the ugly weed flowers at the Oregon coast. I don't know what it is called, but it looks much better back-lit than in real life.

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Flower?

I was taking a photo of a very small mushroom and near by was this even smaller flower in the weeds. Incredibly small and hardly noticed in my yard,. I thought it deserved a photo for hiding out so well.

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Oregon Summer

If I were in the SA right now, this might be what is expected: Rain. Here in Oregon however, this summer is rain with a few sun breaks. Kind of a lame summer, weather wise, though everything is quite green!

Been bad about posting this past week because of Google+. Been hanging over there. It can take care of and replace a blog in many ways. Potential for comments & feedback is tremendous. You can still have loyal followers and subscribe to follow others through circles. If anyone does not have and would like an invite to Google+, let me know! I will need your email address and I request you put me in a circle & I'll do the same. :-)

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Wild Dasies

Three pretties from a walk.

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Rhodies

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Do not pick the flowers. DON'T!

Next to all these lovely little pink flowers was a wasp keeping watch over passers by, insuring no one goes home with a flower that didn't belong to them. Ok, not true. I believe he was hanging out and drinking water until I shoved my lens into his face and scared him away. :-)

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Bottom's Up

Another from the tulip fields that are in full bloom. So again I grabbed my fisheye lens and my wireless trigger and headed for the bottom of the tulip beds. Not sure this exactly what I expected, but I sure did see a lot of people copying what I did. :-) I think it warrants a revisit for sure. Oh, Happy Easter!

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Blooming Flowers!

A couple recent flower images. Using the fisheye, the tulip is great against the blue sky. (It was a miracle that there was a blue sky!) William in the daffodils was just for fun. :-)

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Daffodil

There are so many of these guys this time of year but I shot a pic and I like it any way. :-)

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White Crocus

Not really a "white crocus" but you get the idea. It was a lovely dusting of snow the other day. We only see snow once every other year and it is a treat. (Not to those who endure it for months every year, I know.)

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Crocus are up

I noticed these little guys up and reaching for the spring. I'll grab more shots when the darker purple rise up. As a side note, this is another shot from my fisheye lens at 10mm. (I love this lens!) The camera was flat on the ground and about 2 inches from the flowers. I did not expect to get this sort of close-up capability from this lens. Cool perspective too!

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Last of the Giants

Granted, these are smaller blooms, but these guys were towering over me at around 7 feet or so. The very large blooms had mostly lost their petals and are going to seed. Fall is a little early around here this year, so far being the wettest September in the past ten years. (An inch of rain yesterday! That's not normal for here.)

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