My father is an amazing gardener. When I lived in Dayton, I would go over every weekend and be his helper. He enjoyed ordering me around, having me pull weeds or plant flat after flat of impatiens to fill in the gaps between the perennials. I remember one year planting a bushel of caladium bulbs. Do you know many bulbs that is? It's a lot!
For his birthday last year, I made a coffee table book of photographs of his garden. I mean, what do you give someone who can afford to buy anything he wants? I was in Ohio late July last year and took a series of photos and then created the book on
Shutterfly. I was so worried the book would not turn out as beautifully as it did. I wish I could have made a copy for myself, but I know when I go to visit this Christmas I'll be able to look through it again.
I'm not into crafts, never mastered sewing, I can't draw or paint, but I can take photographs. I have what they call a bridge camera - it's a glorified point and shoot digital camera with a great zoom lens. I can't change lenses but then, I don't really need to. I just like taking photos for my own amusement and if I had to worry about changing lenses and all the other things, I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much.
I want to share some of my favorite photos that I took of my dad's garden. There are too many to post today, so you'll probably see another post later on with some more.
Don't ask me the names of the flowers and plants. While I know some of them, I can't remember all of them. I don't worry about it, I just enjoy the beauty of the plants.
Living in the desert, it's not any surprise that when I go someplace where it rains a lot, I love going out in it. While I was in Ohio last summer, we had some good rains so I took advantage of that in my photos.
And then, of course, there were the birds. There were many different types birds helping themselves to the feeders. I had to stay back quite a distance to see them, but I did get one good shot of a female cardinal with a seed in her beak.
You don't need a big camera to take great photos. Cell phones do a great job too. I took the picture below with my iPhone. Of course, Leo the cat looks amazing among the ferns regardless of what type of camera you use!
Go out and take some photos of nature to capture the beauty in the world.
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