If there’s a mid-April snowstorm in Madison and I don’t photograph it, has it really happened? Here are some snowdrops I captured last week.
Tag Archives: Flowers
Scenes from a lake loop ride
Grateful for yesterday’s beautiful weather, and to be back out biking on a regular basis again.
View more →Blue iris
Is it really spring?
The crocuses that pop-up in the spring are so tiny and delicate. It’s almost as if spring is tentatively peeking its head above ground and saying “Is it safe? Is winter finally gone?”
View more →Cold weather antidote
A visit to the (indoor) spring flower show at Olbrich Botanical Gardens is the antidote for a very cold and blustery day.
View more →Fleeting beauty
Enjoy and appreciate beauty while you can, for it may soon be gone. Feeling a little introspective today…
View more →September gold
I used to think those huge fields of goldenrod were to blame for the severe seasonal allergies I experience this time of year. I recently learned that goldenrod does not cause allergies. Pollen from the inconspicuously drab ragweed flowers (which appear at the same time) is the culprit.
All those goldenrod blossoms look a little more beautiful to me now.
Japanese anemone
I can always count on a visit to Olbrich Botanical Gardens to brighten up a dreary day. Japanese anemone (a.k.a. Japanese thimbleweed)
View more →In a wild state
“I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men’s beginning to redeem themselves.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Waiting for lunch
An ambush bug waits patiently on a black-eyed Susan for a meal to drop by.