I planted my Cholla in 2005 and it sends out to arms every year but this is the first year it has pushed out blooms! And it’s just getting started!
And the bees are already visiting! Lucky bees!
Details of the Garden and a few First Time Bloomers
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Adam's Needle Yucca, allium, bees, Chicks Blossoms, Cholla in, Daphne 'Carol Mackie', Daylilies, Johnson's Blue Geranium and Stonecrop Sedum, Ladybug, Lamium 'White Nancy', Larkspur, lavender, Leaf Cutter Bees patterns, Lucky bees, Paprika Yarrow, Ray with a Million Blooms, Roadmap with Traveler, summer, Sunflower, Variegated Sage on July 5, 2009 by sambissellAt Long Last: The Gardens at Jay Street
Posted in Abstract, Botanical, Contemplative, Idyllic, Infrared, Nature, Photo Drawing, Photographers, Photography, Solarization, black-and-white with tags bees, Iris, Gallardia, DBG, sunflowers, Dwarf Tulips, "shifts", Dianthus, Spiderweb Cactus, Variegated Sage, Spurge, Cholla Cactus, Sedum, CenturyPlant, Yucca, "A" List of Invasive Plants, Kniphofia, Santolina, Bee Balm, Lanendar Cottonm Evening Primrose, Colorado Penstemon, Blue Allium, old metal toys, lamp globes, formed and blown glass pieces, old iron stove parts, Onoethera, Bachelor Buttons, Larkspur, Sedum germanii, Mint, Cercocarpus, Nassela (Mexican Hair Grass), old root Roses, peonies, Apache Plume, Peach Tree, Pineleaf Penstemon, Dwarf Alberta Spruce, Saskatoon Serviceberry, Delosperma, Gold-Tipped Juniper, Autumn Joy Sedum, Sempervivum, Hens and Chicks, Angelina Sedum, 1850s Goat Cart, Ponderosa Pine, Johnson's Blue Geranium, Engelmann's Spruce, raindrops, Luck Be The Lady, Radiant Energy, Offspring of The Squid Nebula, Lily, Homing Signal, The Welcoming and Gaping Maw, The Fallen, Basket of Gold, Adam's Needle Yucca, Russian Sage, Paprika Yarrow, Artemesia 'Powis Castle', Rabbitbrush, Lamium 'White Nancy', Lily of the Valley, Dragon's Blood Sedum, Dahpne 'Carole Mackie' on June 30, 2009 by sambissell
Dwarf Tulips
This post is going to be virtually nothing but pictures, I’ve decided. To be precise, pictures of my yard, close-ups of some of the plants, blooms, etc in both the front and back yards as well as shots of groupings. Many readers either haven’t been here to the house or, if they have, have not been by this year, for one reason or another.
I’ll name as many as I can; I do know most and many I know only by their botanical name, not their common name, and vice versa. I’ll always label them from front to back.
If you want to write back and identify ones I haven’t named, feel free and I’ll add a note to the photos. And don’t be surprised if I add a few “shifts”.
In any case: ENJOY!
Fading Dianthus Bloom – Spiderweb Cactus Bloom
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Galaxies, Upon Request
Posted in Abstract, Botanical, Contemplative, Electrified, Infrared, Nature, Photo Drawing, Photography, Shimmering Silver, black-and-white, friends with tags Universe, peony, DBG, The Jelly-Starfish Nebula, The Center of the New Galaxy, Nassella tenuissima, The Athabasca Nebula, Mentzilla, Mark, Contemplative Photography, When Galaxies Collide - Rebirth, Within - Galaxies Ready to Burst, Star of Persia Allium, Allium albopilosum, Mexican Hair Grass, Virginia Creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, As Galaxies Form in Tandem, Nebulas, Nebula on the Edge, Giving Birth at the Egg Nebula, New Star Emerging From The Athabasca Nebula, Nebula 2, star, Rebirth of a Star on June 20, 2009 by sambissellMy friend, Catherine, asked “Wither is they?”
So, I respond, They is here:
Close-up of a Mentzilla (I don’t know a common name for it), taken down the street at my friend, Mark’s, house. I have mentioned Mark here a few times before; he is a curator at DBG. Recently, I submitted this photo for possible publication in a book of local photographers on Contemplative Photography (examples of which are here but aren’t local, just good examples that were used in a class I took at Working with Artists).
Galaxies, Waiting for Rebirth
This photo was in a previous post but since it is a galaxy photo, here it is again:
The Center of the New Galaxy
Monroe (aka The Poof) Emergency Fund Request
Posted in Everlasting Love, Love - plain and simple, Photography, Pups and Dogs with tags I love this guy!, Monroe, Monroe (aka Poof), Poof, Poof in the Morning Sun, Sitting Guard on the Yard, squirrels, Super Monroe the Caped Avenger, Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital on May 28, 2009 by sambissell
Poof in the Morning Sun
This is a different kind of blog than any other I have ever posted. Please read the letter below and respond in whatever way you can. It is about the proud fellow above, who I recently posted a blog about and who is loved by many.
Poof
Please help us pay for Monroe’s emergency back operation, which is being performed Thursday, May 28th. Here are the details for this request:
On Holiday……….
Posted in Abstract, Botanical, Electrified, Everlasting Love, Idyllic, Nature, Photo Drawing, Photography, Pups and Dogs, black-and-white, friends with tags Botanic Gardens, Buddy, Chapel of the Hills, Conservatory, Datura Landing Party, Deb, Denver Botanic Gardens, Estes Park, Fall River, Forested Radar Beacons, Goose and Fountain 2, In a Sea of Pansies, Koi Arriving and Departing, Making their Getaway, Nappin' Bud, On Holiday, Passageway, Poppy Mallow, Ready for Takeoff, Rocky Mt. National Park, Saskatchewan, Scent, SK, The Athabasca Nebula, Tree Peony Blossom, Tropical Temptation, tropicals, wildlife on May 23, 2009 by sambissell
Family of Four and then some
Sometimes I dedicate posts to friends so I just want you to know that this one is for Deb, who was visiting from Saskatchewan this past week.
[So, Deb.............enjoy this post.]
We spent a couple of days up in Estes Park and although we didn’t pay the $20 entry fee to go into Rocky Mt. National Park, we did get to see a fair amount of wildlife, anyway. The group above just happened to taking in some sun in a neighborhood when we happened by on a side road to our condo by Fall River.
While I didn’t take a whole lot of arty shots, I did manage to take a few. But one of the great shots I like from our weekend is this one. We were walking down the main drag when we came across this fellow, who was, as you can tell, pretty damn cute. Right after I took this picture, I leaned into him and he licked my nose…something a bit unexpected considering we had never met.
Buddy
A Deimos Way of Life
Posted in Abstract, Buildings of Denver, Electrified, Photo Drawing, Photography, Solarization, black-and-white with tags A Deimos Way of Life, A Deimos Way of Life 2, apartment living, b/w, city life, Deep In the Mountains of Madness, Deimos, Denver, Electrified, Highlands, Mars, Northwest Denver Apartment, Phobos, Phobos Habitat, Photo Drawing, Potter Highlands, solarized, Texture of the Neighborhood, Wind Shear on May 7, 2009 by sambissell
The Spiderweb and Its Heart
Posted in Abstract, Botanical, Electrified, Nature, Photo Drawing, Photography, Solarization, black-and-white with tags blooms, Dwarf Tulips, Solarization, spiderweb, The Spiderweb and Its Heart on May 6, 2009 by sambissell
The Spiderweb and Its Heart
I’m not going to explain this because I’m going to let you figure it out. Get back to me if you have the answer.
Have an excellent day!
April (Snow)showers Bring…
Posted in Abstract, Botanical, Electrified, Nature, Photography, Snowscape, Solarization with tags blooms, cactus, cactus berm, Corn Leaf Iris, Dwarf Tulip, Dwarf Yellow Iris, Even Rain Can't, First Tulip 2, flowers, Grape Hyacinth, Hyacinth, Iris, Iris 4 U, Iris bucharica, Muscari, Muscari neglectum, my yard, Nassella, Nassella tenuissima, Red-Riding Hood Skips Through, Red-Riding Hood Tulips, Spring, Tulip, Undaunted Iris bucharica on April 30, 2009 by sambissell
Undaunted Iris bucharica
It snowed about 10 days ago….a typical late April storm…it was supposed to be a real dumper here in the city but it fizzled out. Instead, it pounded the mountains, foothills, and the plains east of town.
A couple of days before the storm hit, my Iris bucharica (Corn Leaf Iris, though I had to look this up since I’ve never called it that) bloomed. The before-storm pictures really don’t do justice to what this one displayed. I have several around the yard in various places; it is really one of my favorite plants that appear in Spring.
Emergence
Posted in Abstract, Botanical, Electrified, Nature, Photo Drawing, Photography with tags allium, Allium Beginning, Allium shubertii, alliums, basketball, center of gravity, Emergence and Birth, gardens, globes, gravity, Melting Snow Shower, my gardens, my yard, onion, Tentacles on April 28, 2009 by sambissell
Allium Beginning
I have several alliums in my yard. They range from about a foot tall with 3″ globes to 18″ tall with globes the size of a basketball to 3 or 4′ tall with 6” globes. As they bloom, I will be posting them so you can see what I am talking about. The most stunning allium, of course, is the one with the basketball-sized globe, Allium shubertii. I’ll explain it later when you actually see it.
For now, just know that they have all started pushing up through their centers of gravity to make their presences known to me since their leaves have been showing for over a month.
Tentacles
Emergence and Birth
This is just one of them. I have about a dozen throughout the yard. The one above will be about 3′ tall with a 6” globe.
Melting Snow Shower
Enjoy!
I love this guy!
Posted in Photography, Pups and Dogs, Snowscape, friends with tags 2003, 6 months old, 7, Aggie Postemon, Anna Howell, Buddies Sharing a Drink, buzzybeegirl, digital muzzle, Dog Daily Photo, dogs, Facebook, friends, George, Handsome Fella, I love this guy!, Iris, Monroe, Mutts & Such, Nappers, November 2007, Operation Sally, Pals Kissing, Poof, Poof in the Morning Sun, Pup, pups, Ready, Sally, Sitting On Guard In the Front Yard, Snow Swimming, Solstice Blizzard of 2006, Spencer, summer, Terrah Johnson, Through the Snow, Watching for Squirrels, wordpress on April 13, 2009 by sambissell
Watching for Squirrels
His name is Monroe. But many folks know him as Poof, but my son, Spencer, and I can’t remember how we came up with that name…it certainly stuck though!
Ready
Spence and I got him when he was about 6 months old or so. He’s about 6+ now.
His markings were a lot more pronounced when he was a pup.
Handsome Fella
