Took this shot last summer overlooking Rockport Harbor in Rockport, MA.

I figured I better start taking some Spring flower shots  before Spring is over!

I’m pretty sure that is the scientific name for these flowers.

I think this is called a Foxglove flower. I took this photo right after a rainstorm and the sparkling water on the flowers were like diamonds.

These Lilies of the Valley flowers look just like little bells to me.

Sorry I have not been posting the last few days I was away for the weekend. But I am back now.

Happy Monday everyone.  Hope all the mother’s out there had a great Mother’s Day yesterday!

Here is a shot of  some buds and blossoms from our Weeping Cherry Tree.

Another Springtime flower shot today. Here is a tulip bud that is soon to blossom. In fact it did blossom the day after I took this photo!

Finally a Springtime photo from me! This is a branch from a Forsythia bush in my yard. Behind it is a large rock if you are wondering what that is.

This is a photo I took a few months ago in the Fall of some beatiful dying flowers. The splotchy pink spots looked a bit like lipstick on a white shirt hence the title.

Try saying that 5 times fast I took this photo yesterday because I thought these decaying flowers looked really cool. The petals seem to be turning into an almost fur like substance! Here is a photo of these same flowers I posted awhile back before they started dying to compare them!

Here is a photo I took of Salem Harbor a couple of days ago.

You know Summer is over and Fall is here when you see the once healthy looking flowers succumbing to the cold Fall nights. I took this flower shot yesterday and I had really never shot any photos of “ugly” dying flowers before so this was new for me. I want to mention that I got the inspiration to take this shot from several very cool photos on Marcie’s “Daily Practice” photoblog that she had posted over the last week or two of dying flowers so be sure to check her amazing photoblog out!

Here is a shot I took a couple of months ago of a flower garden that was in downtown Wolfeboro, NH.

You may remember that back in July (see post) I was lamenting that a rabbit had eaten the Clematis flowers in our yard. Well I am happy to report that they just recently bloomed again and in fact this is the most flowers I have ever seen on the plant! So maybe having rabbits eat the early blooms is the key

I just took this photo about a half hour ago while playing with my new compact camera. I had been looking for a smaller compact camera to use as my “take everywhere” camera so that on the occasions when it is inconvenient to lug my DSLR and lenses with me I can still take a camera with me in case I want to take any photos. Anyways the camera I settled on was the Panasonic TZ5 mainly because it has a huge range for such a small camera (28mm-280mm) and also because it has a great video mode that can even record videos in true HD! I got it in the mail today and so far I am liking it alot. I may write a review for it here after I have had some time to play with it more.

I tried this picture in color first but after converting it to b&w I decided it looked alot better this way. The white hanging flowers stand out better in the b&w version then they did on the color one against the green leaves.

If I were a bee these flowers would look pretty yummy to me! I did no processing at all on this shot this is right from the camera and to my photoblog.

These purple flowers have a great front row view of Lake Winnisquam where they can enjoy the action on the lake like the Jet Ski in the background.

Here is a photo from Parlee Farms in Tyngsboro, MA that I took last weekend. They have tons of pick your own farmland where you can pick your own strawberries, blueberries, apples etc., depending on the season. They also have this amazing field of flowers that goes on as far as the eye can see!

Here is another photo from Newburyport, MA that I took last weekend. This is a store front that was downtown. The sign may welcome free speech but if you notice in the upper left corner on the little sticker you wont get the sign for free because it costs $16.

Here is a Clematis that was in my backyard last summer. I wanted to take a picture of it this summer instead of posting one from last summer but a rabbit unfortunately ate the leaves on the plant and its not in very good shape so I don’t think it will be blooming this year. But of least I can share last years photo of it!

These flowers were on a largish bush. Not sure what kind of flowers they are but they looked almost fake they where so perfectly shaped and delicate looking.

Here are some pansies we have hanging from our back porch. The flowers are so colorful I could not resist taking a photo of them.