Because pictures are sort of like breathing

[pecunium]

I worked some more on the stuff from yesterday.

The poppies in this series were shot a little earlier (perhaps half of an hour) and the light was warmer, harder and a trifle richer (there were scudding clouds, which changes the fill from skylight).

Crepe Paper



Crumpled


Ruffed Collar


The next one I really like, because of the way the seedpod seems to rise up, and congeal, out of the wash of color.

Bullseye


Now for something completely different

Succulent

Comments

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

The poppy pictures are amazing.

I'm still waiting for most of the flowers to bloom in Ohio. Seeing your pictures just makes the itch to get out there with my camera stronger.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

The spring blooms are pretty much gone. With a bit of care, were I in a place with my own yard, I could play with sun and water, a bit, to make for a longer season.

That or the timing of planting bulbs, which would require digging them up.

The only flowers I can keep going for most of the summer is California Poppies, because so long as they are watered enough, they will keep making flowers.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

When I was in California, I could keep cosmos, coreopsis, sweet peas and nasturtiums going all summer if I made sure to dead head them. But I had big gardens of my own there and I spent a lot of time on them.

Here I have wildflowers and a few flower beds the seniors who live here plant. I make do.