May 11, 2012

Cactus Graffiti


For your Friday lol!-While out scouting photos the other night my husband spotted this "graffiti cactus." Notice this particular prickly pear happens to be blind-making the graffiti possible. lol!

May 8, 2012

Nature's Tie Dye

Evening sun shining through a Canna leaf-nature's vividly wild tie dye.

May 7, 2012

More Goodies

 Inhospitable beauty...unless your an ant.

  Pink cactus flowers

  Prickly pear beauty

"Red Velvet" Yarrow


May 6, 2012

My Morning

Clearly I have a "thing" for pods.

Glorious Purple Leaf Plum in the sun

I had a visitor this morning.

Obviously, I still need to work on placement of text. lol!

May 5, 2012

Evening Sun



So pretty!

 Aren't Poppy pods a thing of beauty?

What is this? It's not nice.

Brilliant Yellow in the evening sun.

and my favorite of the evening-a white Poppy -  so beautiful! 

Oy, there seems to be some technical difficulties- for some reason where font is saved and where Blogger puts the font are two different things-that aside these are some of my very,very favorite photos. I took many photos last night and overall there were many I was not satisfied with, but these were a few that made the cut and I love them!
 

May 3, 2012

Hanging by a Thread


Isn't nature clever? Someone asked me last night; "where I  find bumblebees and cactus flowers and ladybugs on Forsythia?" My answer was-everywhere, all around- the truth is we are surrounded by these wonders every day-we just don't stop long enough to take a look.

Yesterday, while out taking photos the sun was just beautiful once it made it's appearance. I stumbled across this tree with beautiful leaves that seemed "left over" from Fall, so I  got on the side so they were back lit and snapped a few shots-I never realized until I got home that I had this beautiful and perfect heart. I tweaked the exposure just a bit so that the veining would show-it was a bit translucent originally + softened up the white space a bit-but other than that this is the original image.

I love how it has a slightly tattered imperfect feel, yet it's whole and intact, serene and calm yet seemingly hanging by a thread.