Barb and I headed to Bowman’s Hill yesterday morning – she to go on a bird walk, I to photograph some wildflowers and both of us to buy some flowers at their annual native plant sale. By all accounted the morning was a success even though (if you live around these parts, you know this all too well) a cold front passed through between 0900 and 1000 with storms and particularly very high winds that continued through the remainder of the day and continue as I write this morning.
Anyway, we bought flowering plants to fill in one area of the backyard that we are working on this year (this conversion of the backyard habitat to all native plants has been going on slowly for the past several years), Barb saw two life birds for her and I got in a couple of flower portraits before the rains and winds came. Here are a couple of examples of the flower portraits.
“Columbine”
Lovely Ed – that red one is stunning! Detail fabulous!
Your macros are stunning. Your backyard must look amazing.
Beautiful images. I agree with Stacey about the Columbine. Bowman’s Hill is a wonderful resource for native plants. I admire your project of conversion to natives. I have a mix of natives and exotics. Am trying to plant more native trees and shrubs.