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Connecticut Winter Woods Wednesday, Feb 12 2014
Landscapes and Modern Photos connecticut, photography, winter 08:11
Winter trees Wednesday, Feb 5 2014
gardening and Modern Photos and Trees and Uncategorized connecticut, photography, trees 08:30
It isn’t a perfect job, or even close, but since I simply cut and pasted in wordpress rather than any stitching tools, not too bad 🙂
Just playing around, and how does one take a complete photo of a tree that is over 100 feet tall when one is close to it?
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A Classic garden Friday, Jan 31 2014
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos clematis, gardening, iris, photography 08:52
Clematis ‘Henryi’ and ‘Nelly Moser’; unknown old single red peony, mixed columbine, unknown old yellow and blue iris. Purple Heuchera, variegated Asian grass, woodbine (Virginia Creeper). The Little (summer) kitchen south of the house.
Not a nightmare Monday, Jan 27 2014
Modern Photos and Trees photography, trees 08:55
Though, it would probably be a bit spooky if it loomed unexpectedly out of a dark night. It actually is the root bole of a black locust. It fell over two decades ago; the wood is still very solid, sufficiently so that I would not recommend falling against any of those points. I have a fondness for black locust trees. They are massive, slightly gothic, often picturesque trees.* Some people dislike them, arguing that they aren’t native to New England. They are, however, native to Pennsylvania and points south; so the whole ‘not native’ complaint is somewhat tenuous given the similar climate and short distance between the Appalachians and the Berkshires. More to the point, it is a valuable timber, firewood, and nectar (for honey) tree.
*we have the third largest black locust in the state.
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A bench at dusk Monday, Jan 20 2014
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, photography 09:35
Shasta daisies beyond, the cucumber magnolia is the frame.
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Glory of the Morning Wednesday, Jan 15 2014
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, photography 09:29
Morning Glory ‘Grandpa Ott’s’
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Mud Season Sunday, Jan 12 2014
Modern Photos horses, photography, weather 17:29
We should be having snow….not 55 F, several inches of rain, and partially frozen ground. The end result is MUD. The end result of that is a certain furry member of the family taking full advantage of the MUD.
He should look like this:
He enjoys this:
Same horse…actually he was much worse looking today, the mud was about an inch thick.
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Reminders Thursday, Jan 9 2014
Esperanza and gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, photography 08:58
A reminder that last winter was no more kind than this year’s; and this was the result…
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Intrepid Photographers Monday, Jan 6 2014
Historic Photos photography 15:26
Somewhere on the St. Lawrence, summer of 1908, on the yacht Mavourneen. Photographers taking photographs of each other never does get old. Not sure who the subject is, I could look it up in the ship’s log. (this is actually simply a scan of the original negative, converted on the computer)
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Rose of the Day Monday, Dec 30 2013
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, photography, roses 16:38
It might be ‘Morden’s Blush’ or ‘Winchester Cathedral’ or possibly another that I can’t recall at the moment, beyond it is the old ‘Fourth of July’ rose, a floribunda type that sprawls and blooms with abandon, usually on the fourth of July, and is as tough as nails, name unknown.
Acair Fearann 