G is For Garden

Well, I've been out in the garden playing with my new toy. I clearly need to do some learning - there are so many options and menus and buttons that it will take me a very long time to become accomplished on this new instrument! Nonetheless - just by doing mostly point and shoot this is what I have come up with so far.

It is finally iris time here. (Much later than usual - but I am happy about this, because it allowed for me to see irises that I would have ordinarily missed because of our trip to Houston. This is the row of irises and daylilies along the front drive.



Here are a few individual shots of some irises that were blooming today. I have ordered and collected some rather expensive ones over the years, but then the iris borer arrived. The pesticides against these seem to confuse honey bees so I have allowed my collection to deteriorate over the years and pretty much am left with the more hardy standards depending on the foibles of fate.



I am rather fond of this dark dark one.



I will do a different post on the baby blanket and some playing with the zoom lens.