Monywa - Il Giardino dei mille Buddha

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Ascott Gardens

Taken at Crystal Gardens

This year my Oregon Grape cultivar 'Charity' gave me a wonderful surprise. It produced grapes, after several years with none. I had assumed that I would enjoy it for its awesome yellow candelabra flowers alone, which cheered me up each year in the depths of winter. Surprise! This year it produced beautiful but sour grapes in abundance. :)

"My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing that I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure."

~ Ina Garten

Spring in Bloom. HBM

Have a great week.

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Edited in Topaz Studio

Beside the Auto Museum and the Automotive Exhibition Center is the Shanghai Auto-Expo Park (上海汽车博览公园).

Inside this park are several spots designed in a way as the Chinese believe an English, Japanese, French or Italian garden would look like.

This is the "Italian Garden" (意大利园).

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Yes

That's the question

I'm being a bit Shakespearian this evening

I found the perfect house, it might need some decorating and cleaning up tho, but that's ok

Sometimes I really think that hibernating must be pretty nice

You set your life on hold

You can pause a bit

Think and Dwell

Check if this addiction is ruling your life

But

Perhaps thinking isn't always the answer

Sometimes it gets all messed up if you think too much

Sometimes you are supposed to just float along

But

It surely isn't always easy

All these thoughts

You are worried

You are left out

You are too far away

You can't do so much about anything

But you care

I guess

You just need the time to go

Or

Letting him go

Either the addiction goes away or not

God knows

I don't

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McGoldrick Park april 2021

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nuthatch in our garden...

Companion planting in a very colourful way.

In garden in Cornwall

The last year of operation for this beautiful garden. Chilliwack, BC Canada. Closed in 2013.

Yashica MAT - 120

Film; standard Ilford B&W (forgot which one).

No edit straight out of the camera.

I envy my Flickr friends who can render such poetics from their gardens. My garden / flower photos all look like they are from a Burpee seed catalog.

I think I have to give credit to my camera for this shot.

Have a great weekend everyone.

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Pentax K-5

Helios 44-2 58mm F/2

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Longing Melody - Where to belong

Sometimes all we need is the sound of the waves, the song of birds, the scent of the sea salt mixing with spring bloom and a wind to stoke out cheeks lovingly. Just (be)longing.

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Secret Garden - Song From A Secret Garden

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Special thanks to my love Joy♪

In our garden

Mdina, Malta

A friend's garden

Remember when social distancing wasn't the norm?

A small white butterfly on an osteospermum flower from my garden

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UBC Botanical Garden, at the University of British Columbia, was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson, British Columbia's first provincial botanist. It is the oldest botanical garden at a university in Canada.

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A house opposite me decided to rip up the front lawn, prepare it and scatter wild flower seeds, this is the result, nice to see so many different flowers on show, and also good for the decreasing wildlife.

Shooting through two home made filters ( a sheet of screening and a piece of thick plate glass from a cocktail table, allowing the light to run across it) and some post processing to emulate a salt paper calotype of the 1840's.

I am quite enamored by the photography of the nineteenth century. The photographers brought an unpretentious sense of poetics to their work.

Last minutes with garden's flowers...

Az utolsó pillanatok a kerti virágokból...

You can see it in large size too...

Farmhouse fence and old horse drawn plough, HFF!

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Ascott Gardens

TULIPS REACHING FOR THE SUN

Buddha Garden , a paradise of pleasure, relax and meditation. You can spend moments of serenity surrounded by nature.

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