Showing posts with label pansy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pansy. Show all posts

Sunday, April 24, 2011

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.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Day 128

We went to the West End to go to Hobby Lobby, which is new to our area. After shopping, we went to eat lunch and ice cream.

This median strip had yellow daffodil and pansies at the end.



There were birch trees along the sidewalks.


As we were driving back to the Southside, I took a photo of the river from the bridge we crossed. 


The sun was glowing nicely through these trees.



The sun was setting behind us.


Earlier in the day, my sweet husband bought me a new camera, a Canon Power Shot. I saved using it for the evening, as I knew there was going to be a large full moon, known as a "Super Moon". My old camera isn't capable of taking clear photos of the moon, easily. This camera is.

This is from my balcony. It took a few tries, but I got the camera to focus nicely where the branches right in front of the moon showed up. These branches were far away from the house. I'm impressed with the power and clarity of this camera.


The camera has a "hand held twilight" setting. It rapidly takes 6 photos in low light and then make one clearer shot. This prevents the blurring that taking night photos without a tripod, can create.

This is from the parking lot. I love how powerful the camera is. It picked up stars too!