Monet’s garden

… or a lawn gone wild? All I know is that the bees and butterflies love it.

 

 

snowdrops

Spring flowers in black and white…
 

 

silhouettes (2 images)

Queen Anne’s lace silhouetted against the morning light. The flowers have such great structure.

drops of sunshine

Little yellow flowers bloom cheerfully, not caring in the least that they’re only weeds.

first bluebells (2 images)

Sometimes a daring bluebell will pop up somewhere on the flat part of our property, but it usually doesn’t last more than a day before being nipped off by a hungry deer. However, the flowers have managed to colonize a steep rock face down by the water, where the deer can’t get at them, and I look forward to their bloom every spring.

First day of spring?

OK, maybe that’s a tad optimistic, but today it is 12° Celcius (that’s 54° F) and look what I found!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic

tansy glacé

(Four photos)

I had so much fun taking close-ups of this dew-spangled common tansy weed growing in my back yard. The flowers are at all different stages, even so late in the fall, and the dew transformed them from commonplace to beautiful.

Pender Island tansy

Weekly Photo Challenge: Transition

wild onions

These wild onions, growing beachside, are nearing the end of their flowering period.

iris abstraction

Wild irises glow in the shade of the cedar trees edging our property.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Vivid

wild rose life

A shy bud unfurls.

The flower opens wide, gladly trading its sweet perfume for a few hours of light.

Petals fade and drop, making way for the rose hip beneath to develop and ripen.