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Visiting Longwood Gardens – The Meadow in the fall 2025
My last post was about the Main Fountain Gardens at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Longwood Gardens is over 1,100 acres of various gardens, both indoors and out. Their gardens feature native woodlands, roses, a large orchid collection, a waterlily court, tropicals, and more. According to their website, they are one of the most-visited… Continue reading
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Visiting Longwood Gardens in the summer – The Main Fountain Garden District
Longwood Gardens features over 1,100 acres of gardens in various formats and displays, both indoors and out. Their gardens feature native woodlands, pool and fountain displays, roses, a topiary, an expansive native meadow, a waterlily court, tropicals, and more. According to their website, they are one of the most-visited gardens in the U.S. (and I… 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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More Prickly Pear
I took these on June 11th, just a couple days after my last post. Even more blooms. I also happened to catch a bee on them while I had my camera on-hand. The photos were rushed because it was like real feel(R) 106F and 70ish+ % humidity with the sun blazing down on me at… Continue reading
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The Prickly Pears that were Left Behind
When we moved into our house in the summer of 2024, the previous owner left behind a number of things. It was a husband whose wife had already left the world before him, and he was living alone when he began suffering from dementia very suddenly. So, the children had to quickly move him out… 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
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I forgot about the flower, White Campion, from my childhood
White campion (Silene latifolia) is native to most of Europe, Western Asia, and northern Africa, but has naturalized throughout most of the U.S. I remember now that it was all over where I grew up in Iowa, but I had completely forgotten about its existence until about a year ago. I still have an old… Continue reading
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Nurse logs in Washington’s Hoh Rainforest, Olympic Peninsula
In Washington’s mighty Hoh Rainforest, there is a phenomenon called “nurse logs”. These are fallen trees that function like a nursery for saplings on their decaying trunks. The small, young trees take advantage of this higher ground and rich organic material to reach the sun and get ahead of the other saplings. Eventually, only the… Continue reading
Pretty Sky Things 