It’s My Favorite Flower, My Lovely Gardenia

The month of May is always something I do look forward to because I know my lone gardenia shrub would not disappoint. It always gives me that heady and intoxicating scent every time I see a new bloom. Here’s a first for this year and lots more coming because almost every tip has a bud [...]

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Crazy, Crazy Weather

I don’t know what to think.  This weather is making me crazy, it’s hot and sunny one moment, then there are thunderstorms, lightning and rain the next.  And it’s been raining the past three  days, a welcome change for my garden plants that seem to savor the rain. This morning looked so fresh and clean. [...]

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Hoya In Bloom

I told you, I am mad about documenting every bloom in my garden and this lovely hoya only shows its face once a year.  Hoya vines are also called wax plants because of their waxy and velvety blooms which look artificial.  I always look forward to seeing a hoya bloom in my garden every year.  [...]

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More Practice With Macro Photography

The early years – when I could not resist taking shots of flowers and blooms. They never fail to put a smile on my face every time I see them. I wish I could compile all the macro shots I took  (hundreds of them) as far back as four years ago. The details, the place [...]

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Mornings At The Garden

It’s one  of those mornings when one sees a nice surprise waiting to be discovered. What a good way to start the day! Good morning world…. This is our cat Miming,  so serene and so peaceful. Sometimes you wish life is this simple. She is all over the place, sometimes perched in one of the [...]

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Metamorphosis

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. – Gerard de Nerval Don’t look now, but there was a time when I used to document every bloom and every seed that grows in my garden.  I even dreamed of writing about it, describing every bloom, how long it took for one particular plant to grow [...]

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Fall

A close friend of mine  once shared her album she took in BC. I simply love the colors of the fall season. I was having my morning routine of cleaning the backyard, sweeping dry leaves and deadheading some plants and I was briefly reminded of the pictures she shared. This is how close as I [...]

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Six PM

Can’t resist taking shots of these  and what better time to do it than at dusk, hmm….it’s more of twilight I guess.

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And It’s Magic

You think I’m nuts but I  love the smooth feel of newly waxed and buffed floors on my bare feet. I love to squirt water on my face every time I water the plants. I love the smell of newly cut grass and delights in discovering new blooms in my garden! The magic of daily [...]

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A Day In The Life Of A Gardener

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation.  It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a [...]

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