Day 419

Today, we went to the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens to see the plants, and the new butterfly house.

Marigolds

Camellia

Hydrangea

Hydrangea

Devil's Tongue

These flowers have grown between an emergency exit gate. They were covered in ants.

Water Lily

Hydrangea

Monarch butterfly

Monarch butterflies

Day 397

Despite the snow the other day, we've had a mild Winter, which means the flowers bloomed early. We've also had more birds around, which is always nice.

Some type of rose, or the larger form of Camilla

Vinca vine

Robin

Daffodil

Day 362

Since our camellia bush was the reason I started this project, I wanted to include it in the last week of the project. These were taken at dusk.

Day 288

There is a tropical storm headed this way tomorrow. The hurricane portion will hit the coast line, but since we are not on the coast, we will just have a severe storm. I'm not looking forward to it, but today has been relatively calm and a bit wet. Since the rain had stopped and the outside temperature was cool, I decided it would be a good chance to photograph wet leaves on the Camellia bush.

Day 265

We went to lunch at Mi Hacenda. They have beautiful roses there, so I brought my camera along.

At home, I noticed this ant on a camellia leaf.

New camellia leaves are sprouting.

Ferns on the hill

Day 258

Today, I went out front to see what new growth and things I could find.

Cloud caused by a plane

Tulip tree leaves

Camellia leaf bud

Rhododendron flower bud. This plant take months (almost a year) to make a flower, which only last a few weeks.

Day 164 - Easter

Today is Easter.

I started the morning with a blazing sunrise through the trees.

For brunch, we went to John's parents' house. While the girls were making us look for Easter eggs, I took some photos of plants around their house.

Dandelions

Silver maple tree seeds

Purple pansies

These green blooms had lots of tiny red insects on them, and for a bit, this fly.

This vine with purple flowers creeps up the light pole.

They have a huge bush beside their house. It's covered in red blooms that in various states of decay. John's mom said it's a camellia bush. It's definitely a different variety than ours.

For linner (lunch/dinner) and to celebrate my younger brother's b-day, we went to my parents' house.

This tiny purple butterfly was resting on the soil beside our car.

A healthy hibiscus plant is blooming on their back porch.

The sun was beating down on the back porch.

In the front yard, was a patch of clover.

This azalea still has healthy blooms.

The sun was so bright, that the leaves were a bright green.

Day 152

Today, I walked through the backyard of our townhouse section.

Starting at the school bus stop, this is the tulip as it starts to die. Placing flowers at a bus stop, might be pretty, but useless if not watered.

Purple Azalea

I'm not sure what kind of flower this is, but it's in a pot with similar flowers, but in other colors.

Yellow Tulips

Purple flowers. Again, I don't know the name of these.

I love this beautiful two toned flower.

Light pink Azaleas

Yellow flowers

These Azaleas had various concentrations of pink. This one had the most.

Pink Dogwood

This camellia bush had large pink flowers on it. It's much taller than our light pink one.

Dying camellia bloom.

Red Azaleas

Squirrel