Simple stuff – photos of a hedge while out walking one evening – but a plethora of species of flora to be found and enjoyed.
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Bluebells
It’s been a slightly busy year; so busy I’m still catching up with photos made in April / May time. Much longer and it’ll suit next year instead!
Around the middle of May a group of friends and I went for a photo-stroll from Crieff out along Lady Mary’s Walk, in search of bluebells. We found some. I shot some with an infrared filter, just to see what would happen – it seems to have rendered the colours with a very olde-worlde vintage faded effect.
Perth close-ups: floral colour
The last in a short series of photos from a stroll around Perth.
These are all processed slightly differently from my usual workflow – instead of darktable, I used RawTherapee with a film emulation (allegedly Fuji Provia). As with the others in this series, all images were made on a Helios 58mm f/2 prime lens, pretty wide open.
Evening Light
Narcissi and Dutchman’s Breeches backlit in the evening light.
Old and New
The very last of last year’s crab-apples, lying in a patch of this year’s new snowdrop growth.
Back in the land of the living
The proper mobile phone has returned from its second unauthorised leave of repair absence, and has been reformatted and flashed with a custom ROM (Ultimate N7000 XXLT4 JellyBean 4.1.2 v6 for the Samsung Galaxy Note, no less) which seems to be a whole load faster than before. So to celebrate, have a quick photo of the (intentionally, honest) wildflower meadow section of the garden.
Yay, and verily hallelujah!
And now back to reinstalling and reconfiguring all the apps I used previously…
Blue, pink and green
Dappled sunlight on bluebells and geraniums
More dappled sunlight on a mixture of bluebells and pink geraniums.
More bluebells
I just couldn’t resist these, a gorgeous shade of blue with dappled sunlight on them.
Tulips
Taken last night: a small cluster of red, yellow and yummy purple tulips in golden evening light.
Splash of Colour
A gorgeous display of colour – flowers catching the evening sunlight in the garden.
An Afternoon’s Changes
We spent the afternoon pottering around the garden.
First, the fencepost on which the external road-visibility mirror is mounted got repainted a nice shade of green:
We planted several tomatoes and made a start on some potatoes:
and some bedding plants – lobelia to flop over the sides of planters:
and some more petunias:
and there’s still a load of veg and herbs to be going on with:
Such domestication. The garden is gradually beginning to look more ready for whatever the summer growth-spurt brings!