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| Hosta 'Liberty', H. Halcyon, H. 'Cameo' & left H. 'El Niño' taken with a Galaxy 5 |
The horrible flood in my house on Wednesday has my cats Niño
and Niña in turmoil. I wrote about it here. Despair Not II
Today 5 May, 2023 I imagine, when I am in my bedroom with the two cats, and listening to the noise of the many dehumidifiers, that I am flying to some exotic location like the National Convention of the American Hosta Society in Ames, Iowa (to be held June 7).
It is a melancholy day of rain and I realized that the only positive idea to think about is to look at my garden that I am getting ready for the Vancouver Rose Society open gardens in mid June.
Thanks to my eldest daughter Alexandra, who will be accompanying me to Ames, I enjoy writing a daily blog that in this case can also apply to the AHS FB page. Ale got me into it. It offers me a little distraction from the grief I feel over the loss of my Rosemary (52 years married) on 9 December 2020.
Some who read my blog may know that I was a magazine photographer in Vancouver beginning around 1977. I shot film cameras and thanks to prodding from Rosemary I bought a digital one 8 years ago. I shoot film, lots, too. Sometimes my Galaxy 5 can take unusual photographs in low light and one in particular to today’s rainy skies.
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| Deck garden - Fuji X-E3 panoramic |
The other photographs that I have posted here are with my Fuji X-E3 which has the feature of being able to take wide and extra wide panoramics.
The one here is from my bedroom window which is the only place left in my home with a bit of solace for my cats and me.
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| Garden from bedroom window - Fuji X-E3 |
The photograph of my laneway garden I shot a day before I cut the edge of the grass with scissors as my Rosemary did. Her Ipheions are in bloom right now and their foliage is close to the edge of the flower bed so I cannot use a weedeater.
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| My laneway garden has one English Rose and four old roses. One of them R. sericea ssp. omeiensis f. pteracantha flowered May 1 There are 3 hostas in this bed H. 'Sum and Substance, H. plantaginea & H. 'Invincible' |
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| Rosa sericea ssp. omeiensis f. pteracantha |
