Archive for the ‘Nature Photography’ Category

July 24, 2010

Evan’s flower garden is looking quite beautiful! His excitement over these flowers is overruling his despair over the fact that the peppers just aren’t growing well.

We made peach pie this week using peaches from our very own peach tree. This is the first year we’ve had peaches on it. In fact, it’s so loaded that one of the branches broke off. I’m not sure if our lack in peaches in previous years was due to the youth of the tree or weather that just wasn’t quite right.

On the other hand, this is not the year of the apple, nor was last. I was thinking maybe the apple trees produced every other year, but once again we have just one measly apple! Other years, we’ve had hundreds. I have yet to figure out this fruit tree thing.

Here’s our hanging basket where the robin lives:

Robin-baby:

Angry momma robin:

I bought 12 astilbe plants from Long’s Garden a couple of years ago, and I love them! I think I have 4 different varieties. They are thriving in our flower bed along the driveway, where it’s 1/2 shady and 1/2 sunny.

These are very old spirea bushes alongside the garage.

Cherries, which I need to pick tomorrow or Sunday. I guess it’s pie time!

I love this little guy. I think I might print this one off on some notecards!

This is what happens when you add a little boy, some water, a sandbox, and yes (excuse the painted toenails):

Later, we ate dinner by candlelight when a storm knocked out our power for a bit!

Are you thinking of a portrait session? I had a cancellation next week so I have an opening! I have one limited opening the week of July 6 and then not until the week of July 20.

Around the Yard

June 17, 2009

Since I killed my 365 blog, I’m not as good about taking pictures around our house! Here are a few recent ones:

Evan shows off the sand castle we made:

Our squirrel feeder and a fat squirrel:

It’s almost time to pick cherries! Every year we read the book A Pie in the Sky before we pick cherries, then we make a pie using the recipe at the back of the book. It’s a good recipe!

Tyler is bored with it all.

For some reason, only one of the four eggs hatched in the robins’ nest. We have been checking on this little guy daily. They grow so quickly!

Mama Robin is not happy: