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

[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.