Thanks DB. The camera's a better photographer than I am.

Just took a few pictures of some of our spring flowers.

... and a few more ...

... and the last couple.

Great pics, db!

I'm starting to think your name is Joe "The Tulip" Todesky with some of those flowers DB.

An excellent series DB.

It's the beginning of Autumn (fall) here and the gardens are a little drab.

I would like to make a correction. The name should be Jimmy, not Joe. No clue where Joe came from.

I just watched The Whole Nine Yards Thursday :rofl:

Thanks a bunch, but the credit really goes to Mother Nature and my wife. The former for the beauty she gave to flowers and the latter for planting them and nuturing them. :boink:

DB your flower pics are great! I just started getting into photography and nature is the best. Here are few from my latest album titles, "Oh for the love of Pink"

Super start. :thumbs:

Can't wait to see ALL the silky things you'll be able to show us. :brows:

I love the peach tree pic, TinglingTess!

Pretty Camelias too!

M says they're lovely Sassanqua (sp?) Camellias.

Tess, I can see the headlines now ... "We're in the pink as a lovely lady takes pictures of lovely flowers!"

Thanks everyone it is fun taking pics with my pink camera :D

Here are a few pics of the wisteria that is growing wild all over our section of the world. The stuff truly grows like a weed and smells amazing when it first blooms. These pictures come from outside our apartment building, and the ones on the pergola are from the botanical gardens where it covers the entire top in the most amazing display.

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, the flowers outside here are pretty much limited to crocuses and daffodils so far... But I have pretty ones growing inside!

This is the first time this plant has four blooms at once for me. The two top ones are yesterday's blooms, and they're fading fast, but the bottom ones are today's. The flowers only really last a day. But for that one day, they are GORGEOUS!

I'm not used to seeing Hibiscus as a bonsai.

Lovely flowers.

More great pictures, Tess.

Attached is one of a hawk soaring over my wife and I when we went for a drive last week. Normally, when I try to get a picture of a bird in flight, it blurs terribly. This time, it actually didn't come out too bad ...

Here's a view from one of the places I like to go walking. That's the Mackinaw River just southeast of where I live. It's actually down about two or three feet from where it was earlier this spring. The bluff I'm on is about 40' higher than the river, so it's a pretty good drop down.

Lovely and green.

Looks like good fishing.

Here's another little bird I got to meet on today's walk ...

That looks like what we call a sparrow.

Mama duck nesting in front of our house ...
 

Here's our lovely visitor laying on the eggs she laid yesterday.

The first two show how effective her coloring is in helping her to hide. The third picture outlines her in red so she's easier to see.

Exciting!!! Do you know how many eggs she has?

No we don't. We heard her when she was laying but didn't try to see until afterwards and she was sitting on the eggs then. I'm anxious for when they hatch to see how many. The mama duck seems so serene on her nest.

That's not serenity, that's relief of knowing she doesn't have to crap out another egg.

My dad sent me a picture this morning of a mama duck with 12(!) ducklings following her across our backyard! Unfortunately, while my dad's an awesome photographer with a 35mm camera, digital cameras he isn't so talented at (which isn't helped by the fact that his digital camera is not very good!), so you'll have to imagine the pic! :D

Hopefully dicksbro will get us some good pics of cute ducklings soon!

... yet! ;)

The sooner he is into a digital SLR, the better.

Our lady duck was off her nest early this morning and I got a peek (from a distance) at the eggs. Appears like there are 13 in the nest.

If they all hatch, she's going to be one busy mama! Whew!

Here are a some that I recently shot at the botanical gardens. I love it out there!

The Fan Palm looks just like home.

Nice pictures, Tess. Mrs.and I are thinking one of these days, soon, we'll have to visit Peoria's botanical gardens and the Peoria zoo with its multi-million (25 if I recall right) dollar African exhibits! When we get out there, we'll try to snap some pictures to share.

We've all seen the cartoon scene of the railway "see-saw" trolleys, but I snapped this just out of Melbourne. It's logical, but looks strange (unless you're Venetian).

Pretty in Black.

The textures and light effects are amazing.

Loved all three pictures, OF. That handcar was need and the photo of the blackbird was really good. Amazing you got a clear enough picture to allow zooming in on the feathers. :thumbs: