Flowers are to enjoy. So do it!

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Wild blackberry

by JD Byous

Wildflowers, as well as garden flowers, have always been an interest to me, looking for them and at them and studying them, intellectually.  In my younger years, wind poppies that grow around Mount Diablo near San Francisco were among my favorite that I have photographed…  Icelandic poppies from a home garden too.   They create a mood that you don’t have to analyze or evaluate.

You can go on about the environmental benefits or agricultural problems or taxonomic history or medicinal value… The thing about flowers is that you don’t have to say much.  Flowers are to enjoy; to simply look at.  Sometimes we need to slow down and enjoy life… just stop and smell the rhododendron.  So, do it!

This is called Jacobina or Brazilian Plum, justica carnia. Thanks to Sharon Harrison for the help finding the name.

My son in law, Greg McCormick, loves to garden.  Some of these images are from his yard as well as a field nearby.  The others are from the garden of our cousin, Larry Harley.  When we retired we packed everything into storage and moved into a small garden apartment on his property.  Fortunately, he too loves to garden, a talent and ability which neither The Beckster nor I have been able to cultivate.

Here are a few images to enjoy.

Greg’s Garden

Yellow Icelandic wing poppy

Young Nodding Thistle.

Goldenrod

Flax

Peppermint Sweet William

Foxglove

Purple Sweet William

Red Icelandic wind poppy

Wild blackberry

White Icelandic Wind Poppy

English Roseum (rhododendron)

Greg’s angel and garden

Rose

Rye grass. The fern-looking appendages are its flowers. In fact the plant is called Lolium multiflorum, lolium meaning cockle and multiflorum meaning many flowers.

Larry’s Garden

This is our mystery flower from the lane (Savannah has no alleys, only lanes.) Thanks to our cousin, Sharon Harrison, we found that this is part of the Viburnum genus. However, that genus has over 150 individual species… kind of like Harrison cousins in the South. (Right Sharon?)

Hydrangea

New leaves grow on a hydrangea stem.

A new head of sedum buds

Hydrangea #2

Mexican Petunia, Ruellia simplex.

Geranium buds

If you like travel, history… and images like these, we will feature flowers from our travel locations as we go.  Hope you enjoy them. – Jim and Becky.

Begonia

Here is what we use to capture images for our site.

Cameras: Panasonic Gh4 and G7.  Nikon D7000.

Lens: Panasonic Lumix G Vario 7-14mm f/4.0 ASPH as well as 14-140mm I.O.S. kit lens, both hand-held. Nikon 18-105mm DX VR lens.

Light: Open shade or cloud diffused natural light

Processing: Adobe Photoshop CC 2018

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