New Mexican Primrose (Oenothera speciosa ‘Siskiyou’) at the Yampa River Botanic Park; Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
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Floral dream
Seen at the Yampa River Botanic Park in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Busy, busy, busy…
So many flowers, so little time:
Milkweed
On the way home from our trip to Glacier N.P. and the Canadian Rockies, it so happened that we spent a night in Great Falls, Montana. Before we left the next morning, we stopped off to check out the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center — great displays, lots of hands-on stuff for the little one to play with. Oh, and all the landscape plants around the building are historically accurate — just what the Lewis & Clark expedition would have encountered on their way through.
Like these milkweed blossoms.
Lavender daydream
Seen in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
Quill
If you like photographing flowers, and happen to travel to the big island of Hawaii, you really owe it to yourself to make some time to walk through the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden. Just a few minutes’ drive north of Hilo, it’s home to all sorts of beautiful tropical plants.
Here, for example, is a Pink Quill (tillandsia cyanea) bromeliad. It’s native to Ecuador, but apparently also available as a houseplant (although I doubt it’d do well for us here in Colorado):
More to come…
Bloomin’
A few weeks back, I managed to get a little “me time” for a photowalk in the neighborhood. Here’s one of my captures from that stroll:
Pink carny
OK, I’ll freely admit it. A side benefit of buying my wife flowers is that I get to play with them too. In a few spare moments, I did a little macro experimentation on some of the “survivors” of the crop I bought her for Valentines Day.
I like how the DOF worked out in this shot — gives it a semi-abstract feel.