I believe this is what one calls a photo dump.
I intentionally played around with the settings on our camera before snapping almost every one of these shots. It was my feeble attempts at manual photography /slash/ pretending I was shooting with film and had only one chance to catch each picture. I'm a total weirdo. And soooooo this was fun for me to do.
{Of course, I couldn't help but watermark them. I do love that feather so.}
We have a rose garden in our backyard. This is what I see out my kitchen window. :)
Next to the rose garden you will see one of our vegetable gardens.
We only have a few tomato plants in so far.
My Peonies. I just love peonies. Except for the ant part. Ours are at the far end of the rose garden. I put up that fence thing just today to hold them up. {I took the picture above before I did that.} They were so droopy, you know, as peonies become when they bloom. We also have pink ones but they haven't bloomed at all yet. I hope to take pictures tomorrow of them. Um, so do you think I should try and thread some of the smaller buds through the fency thing?
Anyone else growing peonies?
There were probably about five small rose bushes back there in that part of the yard when we moved in but we have added more than ten since then!! They are surprisingly easy to take care of and always bloom so well. Hubby does fertilize them two or three times a summer... and they really are just beautiful. I'm not a fan of roses in bouquets (I refused to have roses at my wedding. Our florist is probably still reeling about that! Whatever. My wedding, biatch.) but I really do love them out in the "wild". Yes, the wild of my backyard rose garden. Hahaha! They are really lovely and blooming so fantastically right now I just had to snap a picture.
Here are the rest of my SOOC shots from our rose garden today.
a little out of focus, i think
This little guy scared the crap outta me when he went scurrying through the plants! No bigger than my shoe!!
And seriously, just way too cute!! Those ears!!
So his mother eats foliage in our yard & is now so comfortable with me that she will actually approach me/come closer to me to forage if I am still enough. I think that it's totally cool.
I never have my camera when it happens. Of course.
One bush
One "arm" of the bush in the picture below. I want to wrap it around a horse's neck.
We definitely need to work on getting some sort of trellis or something for these roses to climb on.
Any suggestions for a homemade something-or-other to do the trick?
These are the ones in the front right of the full garden picture at the top of this post.
These are new to our garden this year! ........... I think.
Just brilliant!!
I love this one, too!
Ta-Da!!
We also have white and yellow ones back there that were not blooming today. AND a stunning yellow/pink (it's called a Peace Rose) bush in the front of our house. And Hubby just planted another dark pink one out front next to that one. I'm sure you'll see more rose pictures as the summer continues.
Thank you for reading my blog ~ I hope you liked these pictures!
Try your own SOOC Challenge sometime! If you do, please comment here with a link to your pictures! :)
Beautiful!
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