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The Tiger Lilies are Blooming

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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.

The scent of a rose

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Can you smell it?

I can.

Of course I know exactly how beautiful this Prince Napoleon rose smells. Just one look at some of my rose photos brings the scent right back to me. Just gazing at this rose makes me feel as if it’s scent surrounds me.

I think next winter I’ll spend some time each day looking at my photographs so I can remind myself of the gardens beauty and scent.

If you grow scented flower you’ll hopefully know exactly what feeling I’m talking about. Once you get that intoxicating scent in your mind it doesn’t fade easily.

I love this rose. It’s a true beauty and so very hardy!

Click on the photo. You’ll be taken to my flickr account and then at the top of the image look for “all sizes” once you click that a larger version of this image should appear. It’s worth viewing in full size.

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