FOTD – March 27 – Cactus flowers in early spring My Christmas cactus has given up any relationship to winter holidays and seems to have decided to flower all the time. A flower blooms, a new bud forms. The flower dies?… Read More ›
Christmas cactus
ORCHIDS AND THE BEGINNING OF NEW CACTUS FLOWERS
Owen says we have a huge number of crocuses suddenly in the main garden — many more than last year. I haven’t been outside in a while, so tomorrow I willl try to get myself downstairs and outside with my… Read More ›
BUD YESTERDAY, FLOWER TODAY
FOTD: The fat cactus bud becomes a glorious flower Yesterday, it was a beautiful fat bud. It had its whole life ahead of it. Today, it bloomed when the last flower fell from the plant. For some reason, my macro… Read More ›
BLOOMING CACTUS
FOTD – February 5 – Blooming winter cactus The cactus is still blooming and two more buds are getting fat and ready to bloom. The flowers this year are striped red and white. One of these two used to be pink,… Read More ›
FEBRUARY’S MACROS
CMMC February Close Up or Macro I needed pictures and just because, my Christmas Cactus decided to bloom out of season. Do my flowers really understand me or what?
THE CHANGING SEASONS – DECEMBER 2022
The Changing Seasons, December 2022 Funny thing. I had just pulled the pictures in my camera out and processed four of them. These are also the last shots for the year. I had no idea what was on the card having… Read More ›
FUN IN RED
CFFC: Apple Red Colors Great time of year for red! It’s definitely the top of the line color of the season. I’m glad I took a lot of pictures of my Christmas cactus. As expected, the blooming is over long before… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASONS
This is November 2022 November wasn’t a big picture-taking month for me, either. I think I blew my wad on October’s 10 days of blazing color. As October ended, the leaves fell from the trees and while we have had some… Read More ›
RACING TOWARDS CHRISTMAS
Share Your World 28th November I’m not sure why we make the holiday season into such an insane rush. It’s Halloween but before we’ve eaten the candy we are in a mad hysteria about Thanksgiving. Then, before we’ve finished eating the… Read More ›
NOW, FULLY BLOOMING
FOTD – November 22 – Fully blooming cactus flowers Today I realized my macro lens is out of alignment. It has always been temperamental, but in the last couple of days, no matter what I do, it will not focus in… Read More ›
AN ABUNDANCE OF BLOOMING CHRISTMAS CACTI
FOTD – November 19 – Blooming Cactus Sometimes, photography reminds me of living in Israel. There was a decision when the country was formed that it would not import food but would grow our own. As a result, whatever was coming… Read More ›
FAITH REWARDED
FOTD – November 18 – CHRISTMAS CACTUS From when I repotted my cactus — nearly two years ago — there were long stretches when these plants looked dead. I seem to have somehow specialized in growing plants that go dormant for… Read More ›
WALKING SQUARE 10
A WALK IN THE WOODS We live in the woods. You might say we are always walking in the woods, though in October, for at least 10 days of it, we were walking through the most outrageous and awesome woods… Read More ›
WALKING SQUARE 9
A SHORT WALK IN A SMALLISH HOUSE It was a cold day after being a warm day and now both Garry and I are not feeling well, so I didn’t go anywhere and I barely managed to get him out… Read More ›
HAVE A LITTLE FAITH
FOTD – November 7 – Faith and Flowers I’m not big on blind faith. Our pastor (the one I liked who left) asked me if God himself came down to visit me, would I ask for a picture ID? I thought… Read More ›
C IS FOR A COLLECTION!
FOTD – September 17 – Columbine, Cactus, Cosmos, Crocus and Chrysanthemum All the “C” flowers I could think of and for which I had photographs!
APRIL’S BLOOMING CACTUS
FOTD – April 16 – Out-Of-Season Cactus Bloom Is it a Christmas cactus? A Thanksgiving cactus? How about an Easter cactus? Because this one is blooming just in time for Easter. It’s not a major bloom. Just one big bud… Read More ›
CHRISTMAS CACTUS BLOOMS AGAIN
FOTD – March 5 – BLOOMING CACTUS It’s about time! I moved this cactus to a new pot last November which of course eliminated the usual winter blooming, so I was delighted to see the smaller of the two cacti blooming… Read More ›
BUDS
FOTD – February 15 – Buds Always, there’s a bud before the flower.
SKETCHBOOK 16 – FINDING MY STYLE
I looked at my drawings today and realized most of them are blocky. That’s not necessarily bad. Some artists were flowing, others blocky, many both, depending on the year. The problem isn’t that I’m blocky but that I want to… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 