Spectacular spring
#WordlessWednesday By the side of the road, hidden in tall grasses. Woods Creek, early in spring. Pretty in pink. so many choices…
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Horticulture
V is for vision
It’s finally spring. A time to enjoy watching the barren ground come back to life and to vivid colors. The floral image that I made today was made with on black paper (actually more like a cardstock weight paper). I love the black paper because it help make the light colors pop out. I really
T is for tanka
April is National Poetry month, so it’s time for another poem. The poetic style for today will be tanka. This is a five-line poem that is similar to haiku in subject matter (nature). The nature image that I’m going to use for my poem will be the sunflower. In the image above, I had fun
P is for place
There is something interesting to see in any place that you are… Mostly, I’m going to be focusing on the cherry blossoms in Buffalo…. but I had to say something about this picture that I took on Grand Island of a group of turkeys, apparently out for their late morning run along the river. In
N is for native
Grand Island’s annual Garden Walk is scheduled for July 14. Today, I am sharing images of native plant species from last year’s Garden Walk. They were found in the Alt farm, owned by Nicole Gerber and Dave Reilly! (almost #wordlesswednesday) Native species attract the most pollinators. summer flowers are so colorful. so beautiful…. I’m kind
Plants of the Caribbean
I was so excited to see so much color and such a variety of plants. Unfortunately, I had to put the phone in airplane mode to avoid roaming charges so I wasn’t able to use my plant identification app. I hope that you enjoy the pictures of these plants, even if they are unidentified. At
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Visual journal update
Thursday’s installment Thursday was relaxing. We spent the day at the resort in Kissimmee and just enjoyed the weather. I was happy to get almost 13,000 steps walking around the grounds of the resort. Okay, basically going from one interesting plant to another. Which reminds me of today’s prompt. Express your opinion about some issue
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