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The Tiger Lilies are Blooming

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Tiger Lily close up

My tiger lilies have been blooming for at least two weeks. The colors are so vibrant!

The previous owners of our house had very little in their garden – some vegetables, two young fruit trees in the middle of the lawn?, rhubarb, raspberries, and some weedy plants that I can’t remember the name of but they were sure hard to get rid of! Oh and Lilies. Lots of orange lilies.

We kept the lilies and added other varieties. We also kept the raspberries but as you’ve probably figured out we changed most everything else.

I believe it was the vibrant color of the lilies that drew me outside to take their photograph one day last week. It had been raining on and off all day and was in fact lightly raining even as I stepped into the garden.

The lilies just looked so fresh. As if they were enjoying the rain. I had to take their photo.

Wouldn’t you have been drawn outdoors if you saw 20 or 30 lilies like the one above virtually glowing in the garden?

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Shadowy garden photograhy

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This weeks theme is shadows

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This is a hollyhock. The photo was taken into the light so that the flowers and stalk appear dark or as if they are a shadow of themselves. This is certainly what the shadow would look like if were to fall on the ground or another object.

Here’s a gladiola that is half in shadow:

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These are actually photographic mistakes, but they fit this weeks Photo Hunter theme.

Perhaps I should have named this post shady garden photography, but that might have made people think I was photographing something illegal or illicit.

Artistic watering cans

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This weeks Theme is Fake

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When I saw this weeks Photo Hunters theme I thought to myself “what can I photograph that represents fake”. I had no idea. Sure, I could have done some obvious things, but I like challenging myself.

Luckily, my husband and I some time on Saturday to go to Toronto’s 40th annual outdoor art exhibition. My nephew just graduated from the Ontario College of Art – specializing in photography and he had a booth at the art show where he was showing his photos.

He never even shows his immediate family, his parents, his photographs, so we figured it might be years before we’d get another chance to see his fabulous photography so we went to the show.

I had no idea it would be so large! There were 500 artists exhibiting everything from photographs to sculptures in wood, glass, clay, and stone, pottery, paintings, prints, metal artwork and many other forms of art.

I brought my new SLR camera with me and as luck would have it I found some “fake” artwork that would be perfect for the Photo hunter theme.

Now, I know I’m behind in posting my photo hunter photos (on three sites) but I think I found great items to post.

The photo above is of watering cans. Clay or pottery sculptures. They are not functional but they are lovely aren’t they?

I took a lot of great photos on Saturday, many of which will be perfect for this site – funny garden related sculptures. You’ll love them. Watch for them in upcoming posts.

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