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The Meadow in the summer at Longwood Gardens
The next in my “Longwood Gardens” series– over 1,100 acres of gardens of all shapes and sizes in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. My last post featured their 86-acre Meadow Garden consisting of wetlands, ponds, open fields, and a forest’s edge during the fall-time. This post is about The Meadow during the summer from my most recent… Continue reading
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At the pond with frogs and my fancy camera
I visited home to Iowa early July and took a bunch of “okay” photos with my new fancy camera. I’m still figuring out how to actually get subjects in focus– I know this camera can do A LOT more than what you’re seeing in my photos now. But, it’s a fun process. I took some… Continue reading
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Pretty Sparkly Shiny Coral Honeysuckle
I have this fancy camera now that I don’t really know how to work (yet???). It’s been really humid, but yesterday we got some good rain all day and now this morning the sun is out and a lot of that humidity is being burned away. Everything is still dripping with rain/dew and it really… Continue reading
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Fleeting Resident House Finches
Shortly before May 1st, I started hearing some especially loud and persistent cheeping coming from our front door. At first, I thought nothing of it because birds liked to come by our wreath to grab twigs and whatnot for their nests. But the cheeping continued, and so I looked through the glass window on the… Continue reading
