My LiveJournal Blog is nine years old
On the 15th of this month, I will have Nine years of posting in my LiveJournal. In the spirit of celebrating the anniversary of my birth for a week vice day–which I started doing a few years ago when I missed my actual birth"day"–I’ll celebrate this LiveJournal anniversary for a week… whatever that entails… maybe [...]
last stretch of summer
Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) buds/flowers/seedpods White Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea var. alba) Purple Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) ©2010 Ed Book When Mother Nature decides that summer (albeit a fairly non-summer for our region this year) should hand off to autumn, many plants are not finished and the rush is on to finish flowering before the frosts bring a [...]
Purple Penstemon sunrise at Mt St Helens
Purple Penstemon springtime at the Plains of Abraham – southeast side of Mt St Helens at sunrise ©2006 Ed Book Peace
want more?
ok ‘how ’bout these blossoms that I’ll bet you’ve never seen up close… if you’ve seen them at all… Paul, you’ve seen them, I know, but have you seen them this close and not gotten stuck? © Ed Book Peace
Desert Sunflowers
©2005 Ed Book Gerea canescens, Desert Sunflowers (the plant grows about 18″ tall and the flowers are about an inch across. In the other photographs that look like there are portions of yellow ground cover… it’s the Desert Sunflower, they grow a couple feet apart and one has to get down to their level to [...]
poppies
©2007 Ed Book finally before I quit trying to make a poppy photo… I stepped back and out of macro range… Peace
Flowering Red Currant
©2007 Ed Book Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds MkII Lens: Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 “L” macro Fill Flash: Canon Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX with gold/silver reflector bounce from behind to add petal backlighting Exposure: 1/2sec @ f/10 RAW capture Waiting for the light and absence of air movement: 2 hours Peace
Paradise Rock Garden
Skyline Trail – Mt Rainier NP ©2001 Ed Book This was a poster I produced for the national park a few years ago and don’t think I’ve posted the image here… so here it is. I made the image along the Skyline Trail near the Paradise River above Sluskin Falls. The flowers are Monkeyflowers and [...]
Pearly Everlasting with it’s friend and protector rock
Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) Peace
Paradise Valley pond
Paradise Valley, Mt Rainier National Park ‘this pond caught my attention because of the waving grasses in the water and the pearly everlasting, fireweed, and rosy spirea caught my camera’s attention. If you’ve been there and paid attention to your surroundings, you’ve seen it just as you saw the waterfall hidden in the crevice cut [...]
volunteer lupine
Lupine – Nika Trail – Kitsap Peninsula – Puget Sound – WA last evening out the driveway by the road… Peace
yesterday evening in the driveway
Nika Trail – Kitsap Peninsula – Puget Sound – WA the local rhodies have been putting on their show here lately… Peace
strange neighbors – stranger neighborhood
along the grade to Yaqui Pass – Anza Borrego desert, California when I walk around in the desert amongst all the plants, there are a few things I’m looking for… the one I am most diligent about is watching for rattlesnakes… I keep looking everywhere… Shortly after photographing this Cholla Cactus I turned to walk [...]
Ocotillo fireworks
Ocotillo blooming in the Anza Borrego desert, California This tree/shrub has long branches, each starting at the ground and reach up to twenty feet each. The branches are covered with one-inch long spines and presently they are covered with supple green leaves. When the desert dries out, the leaves will dry and fall but when [...]
Sand Verbena and Dune Evening Primrose
Sand Verbena blooming along the Truckhaven Trail in the Anza Borrego desert, California ‘all these photos that I’ve been posting from the desert were made with the Canon 1Ds MkII digital camera. I’m impressed with the camera and impressed that the user’s manual would be so poorly written. After using the Nikon system so long, [...]
the barren desert party time for wildflowers
Coyote Canyon flats and San Ysidro Mountains, Anza Borrego desert, California Peace
dew in the desert
pre-dawn wanderings in the desert brought me to this flower. Dune Evening Primrose – Anza Borrego desert – California Peace
