Daylily Border

Good Morning!

Consider the Lilies

Don't Call Me Lily

The don't call me "lily" daylily. 

"Despite their common name, daylilies are not true lilies (plants from the genus Lilium, family Liliaceae)." -- Wikipedia

Mysteries

Peering into the many mysteries lurking in one of the gardens near me. 

On another note, I'm continually forgetting to reload a memory card into my camera. I take it out to load images onto my laptop, then . . . when I'm out shooting, what happens? NOTHING. Absolutely nothing, because I've once again forgotten the . . . Oh, well. Next time. 

What to do you do to keep a memory card in your camera? Or do you shoot mainly with a cell phone camera? 

Purple

Vortex

Staring into the very vortex of the spring pollen season. :-)

Turkey

I heard this morning that we have T-urkey to t-hank for t-ulips. :-)

Variation

Wordless

Flowers like this leave me wordless. 

Morning Dew

Beauty

Still taking the time, occasionally, to breath in deeply and to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. Well, at least whenever I'm not choking on pollen. :-)

A Tulip Garden

Guarded within the old red wall's embrace,

Marshalled like soldiers in gay company,

The tulips stand arrayed.  Here infantry

Wheels out into the sunlight.  What bold grace

Sets off their tunics, white with crimson lace!

Here are platoons of gold-frocked cavalry,

With scarlet sabres tossing in the eye

Of purple batteries, every gun in place.

Forward they come, with flaunting colours spread,

With torches burning, stepping out in time

To some quick, unheard march.  Our ears are dead,

We cannot catch the tune.  In pantomime

Parades that army.  With our utmost powers

We hear the wind stream through a bed of flowers.

- Amy Lowell

Spring

Meanwhile, spring has arrived here in the middle-Atlantic states.

Garden Wall

Just a parting shot from another one of Naumkaeg's lovely gardens.

Chinese Temple Garden

Naumkaeg

Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Linden Garden

Naumkaeg

Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Gardens

I've read that Naumkaeg's gardens and landscaped grounds were first designed in the late 1880s by Nathan Barrett, then transformed and expanded between 1926 and 1956 by Fletcher Steele and Mabel Choate.

Afternoon Garden

According to the National Trust for Historic Preservatio, the Afternoon Garden, complete with its Venetian poles  was Fletcher Steele's first landscape project at the Naumkeag estate in the Berkshires. The  boxwood hedges were shaped to resemble an Oriental rug.

Guest House

Frelinghuysen Arboretum

Morristown, New Jersey

 

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