2 posts tagged “nature”

For my Mother's Day present to myself, I went to Mercer Arboretum with the girls.  My girls have all the sudden become girly and are scared of snakes and spiders, but they were very sweet and let me take pictures of flowers "on every aisle" as Allie put it...

 

One of four bugs the girls were not afraid of (the others being a green ladybug, a dragonfly, and a roly poly)

 

 

We had seen a snake very near here, so I couldn't get the exact angle I wanted as Allie was fretting very loudly about the snake jumping up and eating her face.  I was mocking her for her sudden fear of snakes, until I later found out that copperheads are native to that particular park.  Oops!  Mother of the Year!

 

 

This baby fern was my favorite.  So tiny and curly and delectable.  This is the picture straight out of camera, and I love it.  I almost NEVER love pics SOOC.

 

And here she is with a minimum of tweaking.  She's so pretty.  I think I'll call her Fern.

 

 

The standard, cheesy rose picture.  I wish you could smell them... they smelled somehow like raspberries.

 

 

No idea what these are called, but I want to stick googly eyes on them.  Not because of any SNL Christoper Walken obsession, but because they just look like they'd have such personality, right?

 

 

This flower looked thirsty when I first shot it.  I've been reading Blurbomat alot lately though and wanted to post-process it out of reality.  Actually, I just post-processed it into hydration.  Everyone's happy this way.

 

 

I love flowers that look like party decorations.  And I really love pretending I have a macro lens, even though I don't.

 

More to come as I edit them. I got a lot of really good shots.  One thing I love about Texas is that even when it's a million degrees outside (read: 92 with 92% humidity), there is always so much green, so much shade, and so much lushness.  Is that a word?  It is now.  

Okay, I'll get my requisite flower and nature shots out of the way in one
shot because I know it can get boring pretty quickly....

1 = Standard flower picture
2 = Standard water picture
3 = Find the bluejay in the tree!
4 = Meet Quincey! The squirrel whose palate we perverted in the name of
Pepperidge Farm Goldfish. One day he'll thank us.