December Colours
So, all this week I have shown results of a close look I had in the garden for a bit of colour on a very grey day last weekend. I have pretty well had enough of this ‘series’, but since the weather has not been great most of the week, it has been quite nice to have a bit of colour here and there to cheer things up. This post shows a few of the other kinds of colour I found in the garden – a few roses that are valiantly hanging in there, even with frost, they look a bit tatty but are still distinctly not-grey, some other flowers, fruits and objects.
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Viburnum December
This week’s posts have been covering my weekend search for some colour under the bland and dreary December skies. This post takes us away from the patio in earlier posts to the front garden. These flowers are on the Viburnum (probably V. tinus) bush in our front raised bed. It is still/already in flower, and has many more buds waiting for a bit of encouragement to pop into view. The flowers are very small, but they occur in tight clusters the size of my hand and as a whole make their presence known, even without exposure to macro-wielding papparazzi pushing lenses in their faces.
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Fennel Fail
I have been posting a series of images from the back patio highlighting my recent search for some colour amongst the gloom of a dreary December day. This post is in contrast to the others as it features drab winter colours and dying plants. This is a large fennel plant that we have tied up to allow the birds to finish off the seeds, and to get a bit of shelter too. I am feeling very pleased with the first image for its water-colour textures and winter feeling.
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Pussy Willow Winter
As I explained yesterday, Saturday was a gloomy day outside but I took my macro lens out to search out an antidote in some bright and cheerful bits of colour. In addition to some beautiful colours, I found that they were sometimes twinned with an optimistic hint of spring and what could be more cheerful than that? I know, it’s December. But this is Victoria, and “Canadian winter” is a phrase that has none of the usual meanings in this neck-of-the-woods, or part-of-the-patio in my case.
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Red Patio Winter
Saturday was a horribly gray day, miserably dark, typical for November on the northwest coast, but without the rain. I decided that there had to be some cheerful colours hiding in the garden, and went out with the macro lens to see what I could see. I look differently when I am thinking of magnifying something, and the brighter seasonal colours seem to come in small patches at about this time, so the macro is the perfect tool for this task.
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Motorcycle Drops
Saturday was grey and gloomy and not an inspiring day for taking photographs, but I thought I would try. So I took the macro out on the patio, looking for some interesting colours, which I will show in a future post or two. Right now our patio, in addition to a lot of pottery containers, is host to every parents bad dream. A 750cc motorcycle recently purchased by our teenage son, who has never ridden. He’s been talking about getting one for months, and of course a friend had a deal for him and money exchanged hands. When I was his age, it was a 1965 Harvester 3/4 ton 4×4 with an 8ft x 10ft hippy cabin on the back – every parents sweet dream as it would have been pretty well impossible to get hurt in that thing. Don’t drive too fast or shingles will peel off. Don’t drive too far because after all 16 mpg on the highway is a lot of gas. Even if gas was cheap then, so was I. Though come to think of it, parked off road, double bed in the back, girlfriend – hmmmm, maybe my parents were not so relaxed about it after all.
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Cathedral Grove
The Anglican Cathedral on Quadra Street in Victoria is a big pile of stone on a not very large lot. This is the garden area on the south side of the Cathedral – I don’t believe it was ever used for burial. Some of it is now occupied by a parking lot, and in this picture a pavement maze, of sorts, can be seen. I called this, rather wistfully, Cathedral Grove which if you know Vancouver Island you will recognise is a reference to a magnificent patch of old-growth forest with giant Douglas fir trees (some great photos of it here). While this is a very tranquil scene I would so much prefer an old growth forest to wander in at lunch time. My pictures would sure be different.
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