FOTD – September 2 – Little Pink Roses I haven’t done one of these in a long time because my flower garden is a horror show. We’ve had almost no rain. It has been exceptionally hot and humid, so no… Read More ›
Cee’s Flowers of the day
BACKYARD DAYLILIES
FOTD – June 24 – DAYLILIES IN THE BACK It had to be about 18 or 19 years ago when Owen and a friend came by on Mother’s Day and informed me they were going to build a garden for… Read More ›
MORE FLOWERS ON THE MAPLE – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – April 25 FLOWER ON THE MAPLE TREE – VIEW FROM MY WINDOW I like being able to look out the window and see the flowers on the branches of our maple tree. It is the only place I… Read More ›
YOUNG ORCHIDS – Marilyn Armstrong
Young and growing Orchids I counted them. There will be in total of twelve Orchids in this cycle. I tried shooting with three different cameras today. I stood way back and used the shortest length of the long lens, the… Read More ›
FOUR ORCHIDS – Marilyn Armstrong
March 7 – Four Orchids – FOTD Day by day, more orchids bloom. It’s exciting, in a senior citizen sort of way. Although to be fair, I was very proud of my plants 40 years ago when my entire house… Read More ›
FOUR ORCHIDS – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – March 4 – Four Orchids Another bud opened today, so today, there are four orchids and more to come. The new bloom isn’t fully open yet, but I expect it will be by tomorrow afternoon.
RETURN OF THE CHRISTMAS CACTUS – Marilyn Armstrong
The Cactus is Back – FOTD – March 3, 2020 I’ve been so thrilled by my orchids that I almost forgot that the Christmas Cactus is blooming too. It has a weird way of blooming underneath the greenery. It can… Read More ›
AUTUMN FOLIAGE – Marilyn Armstrong
As good as it gets The rain and the wind came and went and surprisingly, we still have a lot of foliage left. I expected to find it all on the ground today. There is a lot of it on… Read More ›
THEN IT WAS AUTUMN AFTER ALL – Marilyn Armstrong
October 19, 2019 – Autumn Leaves It looked hopeless. It was a month late and there was so much rain. And it was warm too late into the season. So most of us — especially me — sighed and decided… Read More ›
LATE SEPTEMBER’S STONE FENCES — BUT WHERE’S AUTUMN? – Marilyn Armstrong
September 30, 2019 – Autumn Leaf We are still really weak in the fall foliage department, but there’s a bit. Here and there and a lot of yellow.
AN IMPRESSIONISTIC ARRAY OF PURPLE ORCHIDS – Marilyn Armstrong
THE DAY OF THE PURPLE ORCHID – 9-17-2019 I just felt like playing with the pictures. I have such a huge array of filters by now, but I rarely do anything playful with the pictures. All of these are definitely… Read More ›
THE PURPLE ORCHID – Marilyn Armstrong
New Orchids in the Little Garden – 09/12/19 I couldn’t have hinted any louder and Garry got the point. Yesterday, he brought home a new set of orchids for me in a rich purple. All the others were pink and… Read More ›
THE LITTLE GARDEN – Marilyn Armstrong
The Little Garden – September 2, 2019 Although you can’t see it at this angle, there’s a very big branch of not-yet-budding transparent or maybe white (hard to tell since they look so much alike) orchids growing out of this… Read More ›
#FOTD – THE FLOWERS AT RIVERSIDE – Marilyn Armstrong
Flowers in the Medieval Garden at Riverside Healthcare I lost a bunch of pictures from this chip be inadvertently deleting a folder. But they had some lovely flowers and these are the pictures that I didn’t delete. Sorry about that!… Read More ›
SUMMER FLOWERS – FOTD – Marilyn Armstrong
Summer Flowers – 07/29/19
HOSTA – Marilyn Armstrong
Hosta – July 15, 2019 I think it’s possible that you can’t kill a Hosta unless you dig it up and throw it in a trash can. Otherwise, they seem to be impermeable to weather, drought, flood and getting eaten… Read More ›
BACKYARD DAYLILIES – Marilyn Armstrong
Backyard Daylilies – FOTD – July 13, 2019 Although I’ve taken a lot of front yard daylilies, I’m not kidding when I tell you they are blooming everywhere. Our entire backyard is full of them, too. You can also see… Read More ›
AND THEN THERE WERE MORE DAYLILIES – Marilyn Armstrong
And then there were Daylilies It’s not fair to say it’s ALL daylilies. As it turns out, we also have some roses. Pink and red ones. Not as many as usual, but to no one’s surprise, they have come back… Read More ›
SUMMER DAYLILIES – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – July 10, 2019 – Daylilies
DAY OF THE BLOOMING DAYLILIES – Marilyn Armstrong
Blooming Daylilies – FOTD – 07/02/19 And so, it did not rain today. No thunder or lightning. Only a few passing clouds. Warm, but not humid. In fact, as close to a perfect summer’s day as one could ask for…. Read More ›
COLUMBINE – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – June 20, 2019 – Columbine While they were so busy blooming, I took pictures. I think the next time I look — tomorrow if it isn’t pouring rain — I will see the beginning of the blooming of… Read More ›
RIVER FLOWERS – Marilyn Armstrong
Wildflowers by the Rivers-FOTD – 06/10/19 After Owen chopped down the meadow behind our house, we decided to go out and take a few hundred pictures. I really don’t think we can take any fewer. It was a lovely day…. Read More ›
RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY! – Marilyn Armstrong
Flowers Inside – FOTD – 05/16/19 It is cold. It is raining, just stopped raining, or is about to start raining. Most people still have their heat on. I don’t, but it’s not because we aren’t cold. We are cold,… Read More ›
SPRING AND CACTUS FLOWERS – Marilyn Armstrong
Fresh forest leaves, a Chickadee, and cactus flowers – 05/12/19 Usually, I limit these posts to actual flowers, but it was such a glorious, lovely, warm, bright day and all the new leaves in the woods look like flowers. Even… Read More ›
