vegetables

this beautifully photographed post on poppytalk this morning had me thinking about vegetable gardens. someday, i would love to have a wonderful back yard plot where i can grow some of my own. i have fond childhood memories of going out back and picking fresh, crisp lettuce for dinner. do you grow your own food? what are your favourite things to grow?

images via shops as listed below, top to bottom.

single vegetable portrait card :: chavah's garden

beet gem :: vegetable gems

tomato plant original painting :: specific flavour

an ode to spring blooms.

oh how i love spring blooms. don't you? ranunculus, tulips, magnolias, poppies. i just can't get enough.

ranunculus, number two :: sara norris photography

pretty in pink :: photography by lori h.

oh for spring again :: integrity studio

eclosion de coquelicots 02 :: marc loret photos

but my personal favourite, as you may have guessed, is sharing it's sweet scent behind me as i write. my beloved peony. why must your season be so short? perhaps your elusiveness is what makes you so irresistibly sweet.

:: thanks for the peonies, mom + dad. they are perfect ::

oh. and if there's one other thing i'm taking away from this post, it's that i need to carve out more time for photo practice. hmmm.

autumn colour week :: green garden

snapped this summer in my parents' garden

hydrangea

my mom has always had the most incredible hydrangea bushes. at their last house [the house i grew up in], people would regularly knock on the door to ask if they could snip a few blooms. there were always bright blue, magenta, pale pink, and darkest plum. but this is by far my favourite colour of hydrangea. that crisp chartreuse green just pops next to the mauve. beauty.

please bear with me and my garden tour. i have a few more blossoms to share with you next week, then i promise we'll move on to a new photo subject!

zinnia

and now for a few more pictures from my garden tour at my parents' last week. zinnias, one of my absolute favourites. i have always been a sucker for the bright saturated colours. i've never really taken notice of the buds before, but i'm so fond of the way they unfold. starting off like a mini artichoke, opening up to those bright + bold blooms.

look at the yellow around the centre, it's like hundreds of tiny flowers within a large flower. amazing. and those pollen curlicues, ripe and ready for the bees to do their thing.

love in a mist

i went a little garden crazy the other day at my parents' house. while the kids played in the sprinkler, i puttered around photographing everything in sight. part of my plan for the summer is to get to know my camera a little better, so i tried playing with my settings + macro a bit. it's going to take some time, but my parents' garden is a pretty good place to play. here is a series of shots of my mom's favourite, love-in-a-mist.

normally i'm deathly afraid of spiders, but for some reason daddy long legs don't really bother me. maybe it's the long skinny legs, i'm definitely more afraid of a thick hairy spider leg. even writing that made me shiver. anyhow, i liked how this little guy looked nestled in the equally spindly leaves of the love-in-a-mist.