The poppies are popping in full bloom in our back garden.
Panasonic GX8, Lumix 24-140mm lens @ 140mm, ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/1000″ exposure
It’s looking like another good year for wild apples this time around. Many of the wild trees on our property have had a great bloom. More cider in our futures!
Panasonic GX8, Lumix 100-300mm lens @ 150mm, ISO 800, f/5, 1/2000″ exposure
The purple magnolia in my Mom’s front yard is in magnificent bloom. The movers came today to take her stuff to her new apartment. All’s well if not a tad bittersweet. Transistions…
Spring beauties
Hepatica
Blue cohosh
Spring beauties
Yellow violet
Trout lily
Trout lilies
Purple trillium
Dutchman’s breeches
We went for a short hike up Mt. Hunger in Waterbury today (dutifully turning around at the “Trail Closed” sign above the waterfall…) I’d thought that, after being away from the Vermont woods for a month, that we’d missed the spring ephemerals. Not so! The trail up the mountain was alive with all the “usual suspects”! In places, the spring beauties covered the forest floor, and their fragrance sweetened the air! What a fine welcome back to the hills of Vermont!
Panasonic GM5, 12-32mm lens @ various lengths, various ISOs, apertures, and shutter speeds.
Spring may be reluctant in Vermont, but in Virginia, the dogwood is blooming nicely!
There’s a story behind these photos: Robin & I were in Boothbay Harbor the other evening. We had noticed two young women—dressed very fashionably and sporting carefully applied makeup—taking selfie after selfie of themselves in various places around town. We were on the footbridge across the harbor, and the two women were there, taking selfies of course. As they passed us, a yellow flower fell out of one woman’s hair and onto the bridge. Robin picked up the flower—smelling of the woman’s perfume—and tossed it onto the water. As we watched it drift, we noticed the contrails reflected in the water. Photography ensued…
Panasonic Lumix GM5, Lumix 14-120mm lens @ 100mm, ISO 800, f/800, f/4.7, 1/400″ exposure.
A honey bee samples nectar from the fragrant bug bane in our ornamental garden.
Panasonic Lumix GM5, Lumix 30mm macro lens, ISO 400, f/2.8, 1/2000″ exposure.
White flox peek from between fence pickets in our ornamental garden.
Panasonic Lumix GM5, Lumix 30mm macro lens, ISO 800, f/2.5, 1/5000″ exposure
I was shooting right after sunrise on a coolish summer morning—the temperature was in the mid-50s. I checked out the ornamental thistles in our knot garden and came across this bumble bee slumbering on one of the blossoms. A few more minutes of sunlight and he began to get active. I checked out the same flowers in the late evening as well and found a couple of other bumbles settling in for the night…
Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm macro, ISO 1250, f/5.6, 1/1600″ exposure.
John Hadden Photography 