FOTD – April 27 – Two Pink Lilies Somehow I failed to notice -there are two pink lilies in the bouquet. I could make excuses but none of them make sense. For some reason, I focused on one and didn’t see… Read More ›
lily
THE PINK LILY
FOTD – April 26 – PINK LILY It was a bud when Garry brought home the bouquet, but it has since bloomed. Finally, a lily that isn’t white! This one is blushing a beautiful shade of pink.
THE EASTER LILY
FOTD – April 24 – EASTER LILY It bloomed very quickly and it has had a beautiful week. Now, it is fading fast.
THE INDOOR GARDEN
FOTD – April 11 – The Indoor Garden And while things are popping outside, things are blooming inside. It’s a wild period of blooming and beautiful to behold.
L IS FOR LILY, LILAC AND LANTANA
FOTD – September 25 – Lilies, Lilacs and Lantana “THREE WINDS,” she cried. He frowned, but picked more tiles from the wall. Lilies of Tiger and Easter sounds like a mah jongg move, doesn’t it? On the other hand, there’s… Read More ›
E IS FOR EASTER LILY
FOTD – September 19 – E is for Easter Lily I did these Easter Lily photos when I had full use of a lot more filters than I currently have. Unfortunately, changes to the structure of the PC operating system have… Read More ›
DAYLILIES
FOTD – June 28 – Daylilies A day of rain and all the flowers are blooming. This is the time for daylilies. Usually, daylilies are the most powerful flower in the garden, but the Queen Anne’s lace that we allowed… Read More ›
DAYLILIES ARE HERE
FOTD – June 16 – Our First Daylily Yesterday, while I was outside feeding birds and watering flowers, I saw the very first blooming daylily. There are hundreds more buds out back and out front. And the hedge roses are… Read More ›
A TIME FOR EVERY THING
ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die;A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;A time to kill, and… Read More ›
MACROS FROM THE INDOOR GARDEN
FOTD – April 20 – Macros from the Indoor Garden It was warm and now it’s cold. Below freezing at night again. Rain in the morning, sun in midday, but it never got warm even with the sun out. But, on… Read More ›
BLOOMING AT HOME
FOTD – April 18 – Orchids, Anthurium, Cactus and Easter Lilies For a while, nothing — except the anthurium — was blooming. Now, everything is blooming. Well, almost everything. Two of the orchids are thinking about blooming, but haven’t gotten there… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 56 – ORCHIDS & A LILY
Completely different, but done on the same day.
A LOOK AT THE WHOLE GARDEN
FOTD – APRIL 15 – THE GARDEN INSIDE Owen brought me a new mini-orchid which is lovely. I think that’s it for flowers at that location. I did my best to try to take a decent shot of the whole… Read More ›
ORCHIDS AND AN EASTER LILY
FOTD – April 12 – ORCHIDS WITH A SIDE OF EASTER LILY It was great to have a nice day without any rain and with sunshine through most of it. As evening was coming round, it started to cool down and… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 54 – EASTER LILY
I’m taking a breather from trying to do things I’m not good at and drawing flowers. I’m good at flowers. While not my most ambitious project, flowers — anything botanical, really — are satisfying. The pretty much always come out… Read More ›
EASTER LILIES A’BLOOMING
FOTD – April 7 – Easter Lilies or Lilium Longiflorum Lilium longiflorum, often called the Easter lily, is a plant which originated in Taiwan and Ryukyu Islands. This one, whatever you want to call it, is beautiful. Today it had… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 53 – FLOWERS
Now that I am not in a brace and my hand doesn’t hurt, I did a bit of drawing. Nothing really special, just orchids and the Easter lily. I was just glad to really have my hand functional again. There… Read More ›
ORCHIDS AND AN EASTER LILY
FOTD – April 6 – Orchids and an Easter Lily Garry brought me an Easter lily today. It’s a beauty with one big flower and five more buds — one of which looks like it will open very soon, maybe… Read More ›
SQUARE ART IS ODD
The Odd Yet Square Necessities More flowers and each is the oddest of numerals, the singular and unique ONE. In a rare moment of truth in art, the purple petunia was actually purple — even more purple than the drawing, albeit… Read More ›
FIDDLE-DEE-DEE
The odds are being fiddled! Today you get to see a drawings rather than a photograph. That alone is odd, right? This is a single picture. You just can’t get odder than numero uno. One is the ultimate odd unit. I… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 