busyThis is the "rain garden" in a small square below a downspout on the east side of our house, near the door. It has giant crocus blooming in white, purple, and yellow. Also visible in one corner, a columbine is putting up its scalloped leaves.
The "goddess garden" near the northeast corner of our house has snow crocus blooming in ivory and yellow. These are much smaller than the giant crocus. The hollow in the middle is where the ceramic goddess statue will go, after freeze danger is past. In this picture, you can also see that the grass is just starting to wake up and turn green near the roots.
This is the "daffodil garden" along the west edge of our parking lot, showing tall leaves of various daffodils, jonquils, and narcissi. They haven't put up any buds yet.
Here is a somewhat longer shot of the tulip bed, currently abloom with crocus flowers in medium and deep purple. You can also see the edge of the daffodil bed. Tulips are beginning to put up leaves, and the first pink buds of peonies are poking through the dirt.
This is the "purple garden," actually planted in shades of purple, pink, and white. It contains tulips, crocus, and chrysanthemums plus some tarragon. These tulips are well up, and one of the purple-and-white striped crocus is blooming (behind the tree, from this angle). This garden is actually up near the house, but I backtracked to it. I was standing on the patio when I shot this, shooting toward the south meadow.
These are some of the deep purple giant crocus blooms in the tulip garden, seen close-up.
At the far end of the bulb garden is a small bed of snowdrops. Along with snow crocus, these are the earliest of the spring flowers. Forming the top/back of this picture, you can see a big rock. That's one of a long line marking the north edge of our little parking lot, extending to create the end of the bulb garden.
I have some more photos, including:
* A tighter closeup of a smaller clump of snowdrops
* Closeups of the other colors of crocus
* Closeups of honeybees visiting flowers
* Honeybees returning to the bee-tree, laden with pollen.
Several artists have posted samples of their sketch pages, with more sketches being available if people want to sponsor some. I've decided to try something similar with photography. So if you want to see more, $1 will get you two extra photos. (You can use the PayPal button on my profile page, or contact me for other options.) Your choice of 1/4 size like these, or full-size; I'll try to remember to put them behind a cut. Doug's camera seems to be shooting at 1600x1200, and I usually reduce the size to 400x300. I've tried keying in half-size but it doesn't show up that way.
March 19 2010, 19:46:14 UTC 11 years ago
Thank you!
March 19 2010, 20:21:40 UTC 11 years ago
March 19 2010, 21:06:38 UTC 11 years ago
Your snowdrops and crocuses are at the same stage as ours. Your daffodils are slightly slower - we have the first buds visible now, but there's still a long way to go until they flower.
But... We have no bees! Not a single one. We had a sleepy wasp in the house which we had to evict (poor thing's probably dead now), and a few midges. And the ants were up and about for the first time last week.
Thoughts
March 19 2010, 23:56:59 UTC 11 years ago
Yes, that's fun.
>> Your daffodils are slightly slower - we have the first buds visible now, but there's still a long way to go until they flower. <<
Some of mine had buds when I looked this afternoon!
>> We have no bees! <<
I was surprised to see the girls out so early this year. There's a wild hive in a tree near our house. But usually this early in spring, what I see are tiny sweat bees and flies and such, not honeybees.
March 20 2010, 02:55:18 UTC 11 years ago
Thoughts
March 20 2010, 03:12:55 UTC 11 years ago
March 20 2010, 04:36:47 UTC 11 years ago
I'm game for more pictures! Irongranger24 is me :) :) :0}
I like your idea of crowdfunding for photos. Wyld_dandelyon has suggested I do it. Maybe I should crack down and get some of my backlog out of the way and do some projects under the crowdfunding banner. Or just use the backlog and see if I can get anyone interested. Sometimes I post photos and don't get any/many comments so I don't know if my friends list would go for it but maybe????
Thank you!
March 20 2010, 16:20:43 UTC 11 years ago
That shot of the purple crocuses is probably one of the best that I got that day. The sunbeam made them glow.
>> Your garden will be beautiful when spring hits full-on.<<
I'm looking forward to the daffodils and tulips blooming.
>> I'm game for more pictures! Irongranger24 is me <<
Yay! You are my first photography patron. I have posted your 4 new photos in a separate post.
>> I like your idea of crowdfunding for photos.<<
I have posted about this over in
>> Wyld_dandelyon has suggested I do it. Maybe I should crack down and get some of my backlog out of the way and do some projects under the crowdfunding banner. Or just use the backlog and see if I can get anyone interested. Sometimes I post photos and don't get any/many comments so I don't know if my friends list would go for it but maybe???? <<
Well, the best time to start a crowdfunding project is when your audience starts pestering you for more of something. The bigger your audience, and the more active people are, the higher the chances of success. There are posts in
If you decide to give this a try, please let me know -- I can pimp your project here and over on "Hypatia's Hoard of Reviews."
Re: Thank you!
March 22 2010, 06:52:07 UTC 11 years ago
Thank you. If I do post I'll let you know and I'm sure you'll see on my journals because I'll probably post it on just about every one I have here & at DW :)
Re: Thank you!
March 23 2010, 06:11:59 UTC 11 years ago
You might try setting up some "regular" posts, like a Monday Roundup or Friday Photo, so that people will know to check for a particular thing. Figure out what your low-level posting frequency is like, and figure that in, so there's always a baseline for folks to follow. Beyond that is gravy.
>>I like how you posted a few and then added a description of what else you had and the prices.<<
Always leave 'em wanting more! I have learned from my poetry crowdfunding that people like to know what is available.
March 20 2010, 10:49:19 UTC 11 years ago