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Floral Friday Fotos: light and dark purple asters

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Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. Remember you can click on the photo below to see them in a larger format.

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I love asters because they seem so easy to grow and maintain, they just pop up in every public place. And what’s not to like about them? They’re not too big, not to small, and very colorful. To me, a bed of asters is always shouting, we’re happy today and you should be too!

Asters come in a variety of colors but my favorite is purple. Here’s a dark purple aster flower, followed by a light purple aster. Both flowers show leftover raindrops on their petals from the morning’s watering, a lovely touch left for me to capture on camera.

Floral Friday Fotos: dark purple aster flower with raindrops

Floral Friday Fotos: light purple aster flower with raindrops

Macro Monday: pink and purple hibiscus flowers

Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

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I took these photos of hibiscus flowers a few months ago at the end of spring. Now that I’m slowly going through the hundreds of pictures on my camera’s SD cards, I get to dig up a few older photos. I love photographing hibiscus blooms because they are so colorful but it can be a challenge to get them in the right angle and light. Most of the time, the photos I take of them are worthless, and sometimes I’m lucky.

Here’s a selection of pink hibiscus, pink and white hibiscus, and purple and light yellow hibiscus flowers. The first shot is the whole flower and the second shot is a close-up. I hope you enjoy these!

Macro Monday: close-up of a pink and white hibiscus bloom

Purple and yellow hibiscus flowerPurple and yellow hibiscus flower — Purple and yellow hibiscus flower

Close-up of a purple and yellow hibiscus bloom

November 3, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower PhotosTags: blooms, close-up of hibiscus, hibiscus macro, Macro Monday, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, pink and white hibiscus flower, pink hibiscus bloom, pink hibiscus flower, purple and yellow hibiscus, purple hibiscus 4 Comments

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Layers of white rose petals

Macro Monday: morning dew on a white rose

Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

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Sometimes I don’t have to go too far to enjoy the beauty that nature has to offer. Here are a few close-ups of the morning dew on the petals of a white rose in my garden, taken from a few different angles.

Macro Monday: morning dew on a white rose

October 27, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower PhotosTags: blooms, dew drops close-ups, dew drops on rose petals, Macro Monday, morning dew drops on a white rose, morning dew on a white rose, nature photography, photos of blooms, photos of flowers 21 Comments

Close-up of a hairpin banksia shrub bloom

Macro Monday: the hairpin banksia shrub and its blooms

Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

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I ran across this shrub over the weekend and I had to take a few pictures of its very peculiar blooms. This is the hairpin banksia shrub, part of the protea family, originally from South Africa.

Take a closer look at the shrub’s blooms. I don’t even know if you could call them flowers. Aren’t they something?

Macro Monday: hairpin banksia shrub bloom

Here’s an ever closer look at a hairpin banksia bloom. Nature sure had fun with this one!

October 20, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Plant Photos, Tree PhotosTags: blooms, hairpin banksia blooms, hairpin banksia flowers, hairpin banksia shrub, Macro Monday, nature photography, photos of blooms, protea family, trees 18 Comments

Cee’s fun foto challenge: One red ladybug

Macro Monday: a red ladybug, an unexpected guest

Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

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Last weekend I took my kids to the small mountain town of Julian, California, about an hour east of San Diego. One of our activities there was to pick apples right off the tree. When I put the apples we brought back in the kitchen sink to wash them, I realized we had an unexpected guest. A cute red ladybug! So I took it outside and put it on my rose bush. I bet it wondered how it got there!