Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Outdoor and (Almost) Wordless Wednesday: The Worm Turns

Caterpillar hiking the Limberlost Trail, Shenandoah National Park, VA
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Monday, June 28, 2010

Blue Monday: Green Spring Blues

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These are a few shots I took on a recent visit to Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria VA. It's a lovely small park in Fairfax County, with many different garden areas on display. Most of the plants are labeled, so that horticultural ignoramuses (such as moi) can easily tell a freesia from a dahlia. However, these blue ones weren't marked, so (except for the pansies) I'm not sure what they are. But I always like blue flowers, whatever they're called. (Click on images to enlarge.)

Blue and red blossoms along a dry creek bed running through the park.

These were growing in the rock garden area (I love rock gardens). If you look closely, you can see the little bumble bee in one of the flowers.

And the pansies were very pretty, even though they looked like they could use a large drink of water (spring has been a little dry this year).

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Outdoor and (Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Young Buck

Photos taken July 2008
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Ruby Tuesday: Bench Marked

Now I know this photo doesn't have a lot of red. But I found this secluded spot in one of the parks here in Alexandria recently, and just had to snap it. It's such a perfect representation of the suburbs here in the Washington DC area – around here, even the park benches come with red tape included!

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