Johnson’s Blue
Flower macros, two days in a row! This is a small hybrid geranium that is in my garden, called Johnson’s Blue. It is a great plant for our area which can be quite dry in the summer, and our style of hands-off gardening which means intermittent drought, bouts of weeds and nearly chronic neglect. A good friend divided some of this geranium from her garden when we first moved here and established a bed in the front – more than 15 years ago. It has been a successful inhabitant ever since. You can read more about it here (the first source I found, there are probably many others, and possibly better ones).
Harvest Brodiaea
Today’s post features the Harvest Brodiaea (Brodiaea coronaria), a member of the lily family that is quite common in the Victoria area on rocky outcrops. These are out at the moment in the Chinese Cemetery on Harling Point, right along the upper edge of the beach. They are very small, with the flowers emerging after the leaves have withered. They get pretty badly trampled as this is a high traffic zone, but seem to be surviving.
Lab Tanks II
Back to the Friday Harbor laboratory, and another shot of the tanks in the main lab, following from Lab Tanks posted a few weeks ago.
Angled Cloud
More from the wonderful sunset I have featured a couple of times (here and here) in the past week – the sunset which occurred at the same time as the moon rise shown here. I was taken by the way the shrubs in the foreground were parallel to the clouds in the sky – and yes, this is shot level to the ground.
Iris Bug VII
Another in my iris series focussing on the bugs that use the irises, part of a mini-series. This bumble-bee was very difficult to photograph. Though it seems large and ponderous, it moves quickly and it was interested in sticking its head into things. It would fly in to an open area on the stem and immediately move around a corner, or into the blossom. Thus, most of my pictures are like the one below. I think it must often have been drinking from the same nectar sources that I discovered the ants to be using.
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Laundry Wheel
My neighbour’s clothes line, spotted while shooting macros of insects in the iris patch in my back yard. It is a bit like a Ferris wheel for laundry, spinning in the sky above my back yard.
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