Very nicely shot and ably described. Pleasant, lush garden enhanced by an inviting shaded background.
Jack --- On Wed, 7/20/11, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO - the garden path > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 5:03 PM > Not long after I moved into my > Michigan house some twenty years ago, I made a flagstone > path and planted a perennial garden next to it. My > philosophy of perennial gardening is to crowd it with enough > plants so that it never needs to be weeded. For the most > part it works. Both the path and the garden have endured. > Tonight I got up on a small stepladder and shot a backlit > pic of the garden. The red things are bee balm, and they > attract the aforementioned bees as well as butterflies and > hummingbirds. The tall yellow things in the back are rocket > flowers, but they're curling a bit in the 95 degree F > temperature. Did I say it was hot? There is some echinacea > behind the goose weathervane (Former list member, Belinkoff, > who was mentioned by Robb earlier today, was annoyed that I > had a weather vane on the ground. But I like it there.) > There are some lilies and begonias on the other side of the > bed, but they're mostly hidden here. There's a fountain and > bench off to the left, which are out of frame, as they must > be. since they're in perpetual shade. > > Paul > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=13806857&size=lg > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
