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A bee getting his pollen on, in my backyard. My backyard is lousy with bees right now and I’m digging it!
A bee getting his pollen on, in my backyard. My backyard is lousy with bees right now and I’m digging it!
Flowers from the Iowa State Fair Still more coming…
A zinnia from the Iowa State Fair In honor of Micky’s last day in Hardware, I thought I would post his favorite: FLOWER PORN.
Another State Fair Flower Yeah, there is still more to come.
Bees. Bees. Millions of… no… that is only 1 bee. Bonus points for anybody that gets the movie reference. Not named Anders Runestad.
A flower from the Iowa State Fair. What? You want more flowers from the Iowa State Fair! I can dig it.
A butterfly, doing what they do. I wish I had more butterfly pictures from this year.
A flower blooming at the Iowa State Fair Yep… quite a bit more to go from the Iowa State Fair.
I believe this to be a daisy of some kind. Iowa State Fair. So many more flowers to go!
A daisy from the Iowa State Fair. Yep… love that flower garden.
A butterfly on a zinnia at the Iowa State Fair. Looks like that poor guy has been through a war.
A zinnia from the Iowa State Fair. The flower garden next to the Agriculture Building is one of my favorite flower gardens. So… get ready for plenty more pictures from it.
It had been awhile since I took the Photoshop up to 11. Out of my system now. Want to see what this picture looked like before all the Photoshoperation? Good luck with that.
Phlox One of my favorite small flowers.
One of my coneflowers. A very healthy batch this year. Well, we did it. We made it to 100 Photos of the Day. I figured there was no better way to cap off the first 100 with what Micky would call “flower porn”. Somewhere Russell is shaking his head.
My only stargazer this year. My lily patch had a rough go of it this year. Naima trampled a couple lilies to death. I didn’t get on the weeding train early enough. Also, my sunflowers have made the sun a distant memory to my lilies. I’ll try to do better… Read More »Photo of the Day 0096
Another rose from the State Center Rose Garden (Photo Assistant: Jesse Howard) The selection of today’s photo was also a salute to Russell. He has long been the biggest supporter of my flower photography. The word fanatic barely seems to describe it.
Another rose from the State Center Rose Garden. I missed the sweet spot for this rose garden this year.
Yellow Rose from the State Center Rose Garden Jesse didn’t seem to know that this little gem existed. It may have been the highlight of his day.
Pink lily after some rain. It seems all the lilies that aren’t in my lily patch are doing well. The lilies in my lily patch? Now why did you bring those up?