Many or perhaps most of these cannot be domesticated and that’s part of the fun pf photographing them. Besides, they grow in such wonderful surroundings. To me, this photo was well worth the two mile hike to get to it
I’d say that two-mile hike was well worth it. It’s funny — I’ve never kept journals before, but I’m beginning now to write down where and when I see things, so I can remember when the next spring or fall rolls around. And the more I look, the more I see. It’s just not possible to keep them all straight. This coming weekend, I’m going to drive for an hour to a refuge, for another look at a yellow flower that I didn’t photograph well enough to identify, and didn’t make notes on. We do get a little crazy about these things, don’t we?
We do! It’s easy to get that way. I seem to have an excellent memory for the places in which I see wildflowers, but I also make notes on some of the photos and refer to them quite often.
So dainty! Beautiful.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — April 19, 2016 @ 4:23 pm
They are quite small, but I love to see them.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2016 @ 4:26 pm
Hope you are going to write a book. With illustrations.
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Comment by windyhillx — April 19, 2016 @ 4:43 pm
Thanks, but I’m not much of a writer.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2016 @ 5:08 pm
I must say, I am enjoying your Spring flowers….all the more because they are wild and not cultivated like I mainly see.
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Comment by Vicki — April 19, 2016 @ 4:43 pm
Many or perhaps most of these cannot be domesticated and that’s part of the fun pf photographing them. Besides, they grow in such wonderful surroundings. To me, this photo was well worth the two mile hike to get to it
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2016 @ 5:10 pm
Beautiful & very dramatic!!!
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Comment by Reed Andariese — April 19, 2016 @ 5:04 pm
Thanks Reed. It had just a small beam of sunshine on it that had filtered down through the trees. I just had to try for a photo of that!
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2016 @ 5:12 pm
Perfect!
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Comment by Candace — April 19, 2016 @ 6:04 pm
I think that was what Nature wanted me to see.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2016 @ 7:21 pm
I’d say that two-mile hike was well worth it. It’s funny — I’ve never kept journals before, but I’m beginning now to write down where and when I see things, so I can remember when the next spring or fall rolls around. And the more I look, the more I see. It’s just not possible to keep them all straight. This coming weekend, I’m going to drive for an hour to a refuge, for another look at a yellow flower that I didn’t photograph well enough to identify, and didn’t make notes on. We do get a little crazy about these things, don’t we?
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Comment by shoreacres — April 19, 2016 @ 6:17 pm
We do! It’s easy to get that way. I seem to have an excellent memory for the places in which I see wildflowers, but I also make notes on some of the photos and refer to them quite often.
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Comment by montucky — April 19, 2016 @ 7:23 pm
May God keep you quite fit for 100 years to continue this magnificent work. Congrats.
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Comment by nvsubbaraman — April 19, 2016 @ 11:04 pm
Thank you! You are very kind!
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Comment by montucky — April 20, 2016 @ 8:07 am
so dear
a lovely portrait
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Comment by Tammie — April 20, 2016 @ 8:17 am
Thanks Tammie. It posed to nicely!
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Comment by montucky — April 20, 2016 @ 8:53 am
I see that botanists have moved this species not only to a different genus but even to a different family:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosartes
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Comment by Steve Schwartzman — April 24, 2016 @ 6:21 am
And yet they still grow the same and are just as pretty.
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Comment by montucky — April 24, 2016 @ 8:37 am
On this 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare’s death we’re reminded that “…that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet….”
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Comment by Steve Schwartzman — April 24, 2016 @ 8:45 am