Some plants today. Our snake plant at home has been blooming. It's fragrant flowers are dripping with nectar- but since they are indoors, no hummingbirds or bees to slurp it up. Also the plant next to the snake plant is also taking off since I have been watering it so much.
At BrooklynGlass I went to get some neon tubes this morning and saw this neon tube double vase. I should really pitch a quick one day intro class just making lil vases like this out of tubing- so fun!
5 points to anyone who can tell me what the plant next to the spider plant is?
Pink purple #DamesRockets are blooming, all around our gardens. Often mistaken with phlox. Phlox has 5 flower petals. Dames rockets have 4. It's an established invasive on Vancouver Island. I leave it as it's not choking out other plants & pollinators love them. I remove many other invasives.
Oriental poppy with an honest to goodness honey bee at work.
In recent years, honey bees are few and far between around here. I’m sure that most of the pollinating on my fruit trees is done by smaller, native bees.
I've been going through my old film slides and trying to digitise them.
This dandelion head was last seen, in person, on a sunny Greek hillside nearly 50 years ago, in early summer 1975.
That was the year the first video machines became available, the first, primitive digital camera was produced, the first 'mobile' phone was patented, and the name 'Microsoft' was trademarked.
Fewer than 1% of all the photos in the world had yet been taken...
Ya, the contrast is over the top. Just playing around with parametric masks in Darktable. Trying to see how far I could push it. (Phacelia campanularia, desert bluebell.)
I liked yesterday's #inkyDays drawing so much that I did one on watercolor paper. I also made some progress on a bigger floral piece. So much drawing today :)
Simplicity of two white water lilies in black and white. I captured these beauties in the wetlands of Florida. In the Spring they bloom wild all over Florida covering the waterways where the water is still and relatively shallow.
The simplicity of black and white puts the focus on the fine details of the white petals.