Postcard: Stowe Gardens

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Postcard from Delaware

While it is raining hard today, I did manage to take some good photos earlier this weekend and the garden is looking pretty:

Garden Flowers

Week 18: SOOC – straight out of the camera

Most of my pictures have minimal processing, so this was not a new idea for me. Harder than I expected though.

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Week 17: Architecture

Garden Design

This week’s theme was architecture and I just never found time to go and visit appropriate buildings.   So I gave up and took a photo of a landscape design.  This was drawn for my garden in 2000 just after I moved in to my current house.  I was lucky that I had ~20 designs drawn by the landscape design students.  This was one of the best.

I didn’t really follow any of the designs as I was able to move things like the AC to the back of the house and put a deck in from the kitchen.  Seeing the designs was very helpful though.  It would be quite useful to have followed a design as at the moment everything is growing so fast that I cannot tell what is lawn and what is flowerbed.

Garden will not stop growing

The thought of clearing everything up is quite daunting.  When it finally stops raining I will have to divide the garden into square feet and clear one foot at a time.  Otherwise it is a bit deer-in-the headlights and nothing will get done.

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9/52 Diptych

I was having a hard time deciding how to do my diptych for the week’s photographic challenge. Last year I went over the top and then I got discouraged about taking photos every week as it took so much time in Photoshop.  This year, I didn’t collaborate and  I did a very simple theme.  I used PowerPoint rather than Photoshop.

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4/52 of 2011: Winter

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I wish…for a great garden this year

Seeds

I am participating in Flickr’s 52 of 2011 group.  The idea is to take one themed photograph during each week of the year.  The group sets the themes. Last year I took part in 52 of 2010 but I seem to have only submitted 10 photos, so I hope I will be more successful in 2011.

It occurred to me that not every one who reads my blog visits my flickr page so I am going to post the pictures here, but a few weeks after they were taken.

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Daylily and other garden photos

Yes, I ate the black raspberry right after taking this picture.  Nom, nom.

Lily