Category Archives: Flowers

Aug
22
2010

Summer Vacation - Hike and Bike!

We set out to see parts of the Eastern US we’d never been to. [photo gallery] Our secondary goal was to find hiking and bicycle trails along the way. It turned out to be very difficult to identify acceptable cycling trails on the Web. The various “trails” websites, etc. are frequently misleading. For example, we were looking [...]

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Jun
09
2010

Stemmed Water Lilies

I came across these large stemmed water lilies the other day. Not sure if they are native or introduced? Also caught a spider and a funny winged insect hanging out on a seed pod.

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May
26
2010

Smithsonian Flower Garden 2010

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I found a nice series of small gardens just East of the Smithsonian Castle. Several species I had never seen before. The nearly perfect magnolia bloom was on a tree near the entrance to the National Art Gallery. I was very happy to find one at ground level that hadn’t [...]

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May
14
2010

Philadelphia Scenes

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Apr
29
2010

Roadside Flowers - Spider Lilies

There is a patch of Spider Lilies along my drive to work. These appear to be Hymenocallis rotata. Note the insect interloper in images 3, 4 and 6.

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Apr
15
2010

Roadside Flowers - Iris Versicolor

One of my favorites! Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor)

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Apr
05
2010

Early Roadside Flowers - Spring 2010

Here are a few roadside flower photos I took over the week-end.
A rain lily and blue-eyed grass.

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Mar
30
2010

Naples Flower Show

Spectacular event! Saw several plants that I had never even heard of. [gallery]

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Sep
26
2009

Visit to Wisconsin - Photos 2009

This was the view out my hotel window in downtown Madison! My brother Bruce came down for an evening and we toured the capital building. Discovered that the iPhone 3G has a pretty decent camera!

I drove back to Iowa through southwestern Wisconsin on a grey, rainy day. Fortunately there was already a bit of fall [...]

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Sep
20
2009

Iowa Roadside Flowers and HDR Scenes

Made a brief visit to Iowa over the week-end and took some new roadside flower photos, plus a few rural HDR scenes, including the historic Hurstville Lime Kilns near Maquoketa.
Most of these flower photos were taken along a 150 ft stretch of median where I-74 joins I-80 West. The sheer number of blooms was impressive! The mostly purple asters [...]

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