water lily in our pondlet (muck bucket)
A few years ago when I started the pond, digging a big hole and piling the dirt up along with boulders to make a hill for a waterfall, I bought some pond plants and planted them in a couple muck buckets to wait till the real pond happened. This lily persisted and prevailed after all the others [...]
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 [...]
Huckleberry leaves at Takh Takh Meadow
Last week, I was in Washington state’s Cascade Mountain Range south of Mt Rainier and north of the Columbia River… I started at the Mount Tahoma Trails Association’s The Yurt for a couple days of work helping install the new laminate floor and some other tasks to get the hut ready for the snow season [...]
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 [...]
backlit Western Sword Fern
Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum) ©2009 Ed Book I was out for a walk in the forest and found some interesting Sword Ferns filling the forest understory. The sky was clear so some bits of sunlight were getting through to the forest floor which clipped the highlights of any images made showing sunlit surfaces. (‘clipping [...]
Peony macro
Peony (Paeonia suffruticosa) ©2009 Ed Book This is one of the peonies from the garden. The air was moving too much outside so I brought this blossom into the kitchen and set it up on a stand under the skylight. As the sun was going in and out of clouds and changing the light coming [...]
I happened to be there
Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia uvaria) visitor ©2008 Ed Book some others Peace
one more and then, I’m off across land and water (floating bridge) and land and water (ferry) and la
lupine gathering dew at dawn before the breeze washes up the mountainside © Ed Book Peace
‘gain?
©Ed Book Barrel Cactus from above, a sticky proposition luckily not personally other then as seen here. 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
Mini-Waterlily and Dragonfly
©2007 Ed Book Canon EOS 1Ds MkII with 180mm macro. ISO100, 15sec @ f/22 with polarizer. lighting was ambient and I was holding an umbrella covered with a dark tarp overhead to reduce the sky reflection from the water highlights. The water lilies are growing in a muck bucket waiting for me to finish the [...]
Bearded Yellow Iris in the Nika Trail Gardens
©2007 Ed Book …a macro from yesterday evening in the garden. I used a 180mm macro lens and macro flashes. One flash was positioned above and to the right of the flower and set at 1/8 and the other was positioned against the flower on the left side set at 7/8 so that the flower [...]
