by late summer
the changing light and lengthening shadows beckoned for a backyard garden tour
a slight breeze meant only three images out of ten worked reasonably
a strawberry blossom, clematis seedhead, and seedpod of an unknown flower
named as New Zealand hibiscus after the friend who gifted the seeds
August 24, 2014 in Home, Nature, Photoworks by Marja-Leena
The images you’ve captured are breathtakingly beautiful, Marja-Leena. That last one in particular is quite an amazing sight.
It’s getting to be late summer here too. The grass is still green and the leaves on the trees too, but I find I’ve been missing the buttercups. Silly of me, eh?
Susan, thank you! It really is still summer here with hot days, but the nights are getting cooler, which I don’t mind.
Missing buttercups? Surely you don’t mean the creeping type that covers our lawns and gets into the flowerbeds? It’s terribly invasive and difficult to remove — the bane of any gardener! It’s probably the only thing keeping our lawn green (and speckled with yellow flowers) in this dry summer..
Since I don’t have a garden to fret over I’m happy to enjoy the masses of buttercups that grow at point Pleasant Park in the early summertime. The daisies are lovely too 🙂
Oh, that is okay then – another gardener’s problems! 🙂
It always seems to me that there is an air of melancholy about late summer, a weariness of the spirit perhaps after the turmoil of high summer. Yet even so there is still the welcome of some plants, “See me! see me!” Even creeping buttercups try at least, but they don’t quite make it for me.
Tom, I sense a bit of that melancholy, yet I love the autumn when the colours change and the nights get ever cooler. The only thing I don’t like so much is the heavy rains but usually that’s not until Novemeber. The buttercups never stop.
Isn’t technology marvellous when it enables us to see so clearly the tiny hairs, veins, forms that evade our normal sight. I find the beginnings of Autumn a wondrous time: fruitful, edged with sadness, but with the promise of renewal in all those seeds. I absolutely love that third one you have shown us.
Aye, aye to all you say, Olga! I’m so glad I have the ‘ring’ for my camera lens so that I can get some level of macro photos. The last shot is my favourite too for I love those seedpods as much as the flower.
Exquisite!
Glad you think so!
Lovely–and we’re back again to Dickinson’s “electric hair” of clematis (though I always thought she meant the more curly ones.) Seed pod is interesting…
Marly, I am glad you find these interesting. I don’t recall Dickinson’s “electric hair” mentioned before, but my memory isn’t so great. A certain Dickensian character is your usual favourite 🙂
That’s because you have a Havisham design streak!
Emily Dickinson]
440
‘Tis customary as we part
A trinket — to confer
It helps to stimulate the faith
When Lovers be afar
‘Tis various — as the various taste
Clematis — journeying far
Presents me with a single Curl
Of her Electric Hair
I have a Havisham design streak…. really?? I wonder if anyone else sees that other than Havisham lovers like you? -)
Thanks for sharing that Dickinson poem. I love “a single curl of her electric hair” and will always think of that when I look at the clematis seedhead, especially the varieties which are really puffy.
She does pop up in my head rather frequently, and always when I see clematis…
How could you not have a Havisham streak when you love the golden dead of insects, ancient, worn lettering and images, and the decay of flowers?
Then I accept the Havisham cloak gladly, thanks for the honour, Marly!
Watch this space – more Havishamish images to come, if they turn out well. Have been out with the cameras and will go hunting again this afternoon.