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Friday, September 30, 2016

Big Fat Raindrops on Beautiful Flowers and a Surprise

Happy floral Friday and welcome to "this week in my Maryland garden!" This might be my last installment of regular garden photos for 2016 but, God willing, they'll return in the spring. For this week's post I waited and waited... and waited for a break in the rain but it didn't come so I went out and got soaked for you all. Hope my raindrop on flower photos make you smile!

If you look closely you can see big fat raindrops filling some of the little lantana flower cups.

The raindrops were so big and heavy on this rose that it was facing down toward the ground.

The dahlia was sturdy enough to support the heavy raindrops.

The tiny little bug on this yellow cosmos was a pleasant surprise to me. I didn't even notice it until I downloaded the photos.

Thank you for visiting! May God bless you and all you set your hands to do!

Related posts:
Yellow finch on black eyed susans: https://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2012/08/yellow-finch-feeding-on-black-eyed.html
Bright summer flowers: https://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2016/09/bright-summer-flowers-dahlia-tithonia.html
Butterflies on flowers: https://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2016/08/butterflies-on-mexican-sunflowers-at.html

Friday, May 6, 2016

Glistening Raindrops on Pretty Azalea Flowers

Happy floral Friday! This week's post features beautiful azaleas from the National Arboretum's azalea collection. Their wooded azalea walk features the widest range of azalea varieties and colors that I've ever seen. At peak it is truly stunning but it's lovely even when the azaleas aren't blooming.

I took these photos between rain showers and the raindrops were still full and fresh.

Some of the flowers were so soaked they became almost translucent.

These bicolor azaleas are a favorite of mine, although I love them all.

These red azaleas looked especially nice with the mystery purple flowers in the background. If you know what the purple flowers are, please let me know.

Thank you for visiting! If you enjoyed this post, I'd appreciate a Google +1 and if you like the blog in general, a separate +1 for the main blog would be fabulous too. May God bless you!

Related posts:
Azalea walk landscapes: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2014/05/azalea-walk-landscape-photos.html
Azalea walk photos: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2013/04/amazing-azaleas-wooded-walk-photos.html
Azalea flower close ups: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2013/04/beautiful-azalea-close-up-photos.html

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Happy Earth Day - Leaf and Raindrop Photos

Hosta leaf with raindrops: Photo by Phyllis Wheeler

Happy Earth Day! Although it was raining heavily my husband and I decided to celebrate with a walk through the US National Arboretum's Asian Garden this afternoon. We didn't encounter any other people on the paths, which is really unusual. I guess the weather kept them at home. The sound of rain falling in the quiet gardens was beautiful music to my ears and an nice way to celebrate Earth Day. Hope you enjoy our rainy foliage photos!

Leaves and raindrops: Photo by Phyllis Wheeler

Hosta leaf with raindrops: Photo by Phyllis Wheeler

Ornamental grass in rain: Photo by Ben Wheeler

Did you do anything to celebrate Earth Day? Whatever you did, I hope you enjoyed it. May God bless you and all those who are trying to be good stewards of our planet Earth!

Related posts:
Raindrop photos: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/search?q=raindrops
Day lily photos: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2012/06/dazzling-day-lilies.html
Hosta photos: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/search?q=hosta