Joy Foraker

Hi All! I've been so busy but now comes some free time for me and the camera (strictly point and shoot). Today I'm posting "Leaping cat" from my messy garden.

We all have favorite summer pictures, please share and post them here for all to enjoy.

ricib

Hi Joy, cool cat! nice pic too, I've got a few pics from a vacation I took a few years ago, summer that I'd like to share. This is on the Pacific Coast of Monte Rico, Guatemala at @ 5am.

Hope people like it.

Joy Foraker

Ricib - beautiful sunrise in an almost cloudless sky. The fence adds drama. Thanks - I enjoyed!

Doc

While not technically the best, I thought I'd post two of my favorites...for the memories they envoke if nothing else. These are old scans from the original photos.

The first photo is the coast of Southern California as my parents and I were returning from a fishing trip at Santa Barbara. I was around 16 at the time and don't recall what camera was used.


This image was taken on Highway 4 out of Stockton,Ca on the drive up to the 'Gold Country' and Highway 49. I took this one using a Speed Graphic 4 x 5 sheet film camera.

Welles

Hi Joy,

I'm glad you have some time to play again!

I rarely take photographs but actually did shoot up a card of flowers this year. I was stimulated by the fact that an Oakleaf Hydrangia which I was given four or five years ago finally blossomed. For us in California, this is a rare variety of Hydrangia. The largest leaves are about 12" or so long with a very distinctive shape and the flowers are long, rather than the 'normal' more round shape.

PS The deer positively love the plant. You've gotta fence it or spray it with an egg and water solution every four days. } Bambi...BAH!!!!

Joy Foraker

Wow Doc - that water scene is really stunning. And I like the barn too - picturesque!

Hey Welles - How have you been? How'd you know, I love Hydrangas. That one is a prize, gorgous.

I got three pinky ones on the patio, I try to make them bloom blue color by putting using rusting iron at root. (old ways) - this year I forgot so they bloomed pinkish.

Here's one of the center of hydrangia (I see yours have fascinating centers too)

Joy Foraker

And another with succulents

Welles

Nice, Joy. I had no idea you liked hydrangeas...just happenstance!

That's a lovely pink (even though you forgot to blue it with nails.

Right next to the Oakleaf Hydrangia is one of your variety. It's funny but back east, when I was a kid, we had lots of hydrangeas but they were all the puffball variety.

By the way is it hydrangia or hydrangea?

Joy Foraker

Welles beautiful Hydrangea! Wow I could look at that picture all day. Great detail of their unique structure. Thanks for the treat!

This plant was all over Los Angeles in the 50's - They were used as a foundation plant for all around the houses (during the days when LA had lots of wooden houses). Then they sorta went out of fashion and very few plants can been seen in the cities now.

I have a frequent visitor in my garden...a bright orange luminescent dragonfly. Yesterday I followed it for an hour trying to get a good shot. In utter failure, I settled for this (posted). BTW if you've got dragonfly photos, I'd love to see them. I think they are exquisite and another real plus they eat mosquitoes in flight! I love any insect that gets rid of those stinging pests!

ricib

thanks Joy, here's another from the same time... a Flight line of brown pelicans searching the shallow waters...