Our Blooming Patio
Something is rewarding about growing spring flowers, especially for those who love gardening. From the dead of winter, you watch your garden come back to life as the colors and fragrances of your favorite flowers
Small Wonders, 2021-01
https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2021/08/EBM-20210804153348-1.jpg BB & BB — Butterfly Bush and Bumble Bee, Aug 2021 The next undetermined number of posts will be images of smaller creatures making for entertaining summer viewing just outside of our living room windows. Sometimes we’re so busy looking for the next big thing we lose sight of the wonders that exist at…
Oak Leaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea Quercifolia)
https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2021/06/EBM-20210531061002.jpg Oak Leaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea Quercifolia) The Oak Leaf Hydrangea is native (first discovered in 1770) to the southeastern United States and can be generally found from North Carolina down to Florida. It’s often used as a potted plant, an ornamental shrub, or as a hedge found in gardens as well as parks. It does…
Spring and thoughts in the backyard
https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2021/05/EBM-20210524112301.jpg Garden petunia (Petunia atkinsiana) This past Monday morning, the weather was nice, and I was feeling an urge to make some photos, which I haven’t felt in a while. Bonnie used our car for most of the day, so my choices of what to photograph were limited by how far I was willing to…
Along the way, 81 — 04/2021
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” ― Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2021/04/EBM-20140702120701.jpg I think a nature photographer should have a sense of humor. We make flat image representations of some of the…
A few flowers
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2020/06/EBM-20200606133529.jpg Gladiolus Gladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial cormous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae). …
