Flowers – Wandering Dawgs

Lens-Artists #105: Spring

July 16, 2020Posted in Flowers, Photography, WildflowersTagged Lens-Artists, Photo Challenge, Spring, spring blossoms, springtime33 Comments

This July “Seasons” will be the theme for the entire month with a different season featured each week. This week the challenge is “Spring”. For me, spring is best represented by the vibrant colors of flowers.

Here in coastal Georgia I know it is spring when the azaleas, dogwoods and fruit trees are blooming.

20200319-First-Day-of-Spring-(12) — Spring Azaleas

20200319-First-Day-of-Spring-(22) — Spring Dogwood Bloom

Spring is a beautiful time for a road trip. In Texas, fields are filled with the bluebonnets and other brightly colored wildflowers.

20150331Day-25pm-Willow-City-Loop-(10) — Boots and Bluebonnets in Texas

Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush along Park Road 4

The spring blossoms in the Blue Ridge Mountains add bright colors to the landscape.

20100515Blue-Ridge-Parkway-NC-(6) — Flame Azaleas on the Blue Ridge Parkway

20100515Blue-Ridge-Parkway-NC-(68) — Wild Rhododendron along the Blue Ridge Parkway

20190416-Redbut-in-NC-(3) — Eastern Redbud at rest area in Western North Carolina

Tina, thank you for this weeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Spring

Lens-Artists #103: Surprise

July 3, 2020Posted in Flowers, Georgia, PhotographyTagged garden, Lens-Artists, Photo Challenge, Surprise15 Comments

This week our host Ann-Christine has challenged us to show anything that was a surprise.

I’ve had a few surprises in the garden this summer. When I found two unidentified plants growing in one of my small beds I left them alone to see what would happen. I was surprised when they turned out to be Black Eyed Susans that I planted about two years ago.

20200702-North-Beach-flower — Black Eyed Susan

I’ve seen plenty of cicada skins attached to things around the exterior of our house but I was surprised to find one hanging onto a zinnia while it was shedding its skin. A few days later, the skin was still there.

Cicada shedding it’s skin

Empty cicada skin

Another time a mama diamond back terrapin decided that underneath the salvia would be a perfect place to lay her eggs.

20200606-mama-turtle-(2) — Female Diamond Terrapin laying eggs in the garden

Thank you Ann-Christine for this weeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Surprise

Lens-Artists #101: One Single Flower

June 15, 2020Posted in Flowers, PhotographyTagged Lens-Artists, one single flower, Photo Challenge, zinnias28 Comments

This week guest host Cee of Cee’s Photo Challenges has challenged us to show images of one single flower.

This is a fun challenge for me because I spend a lot of time in my butterfly garden and enjoy capturing images of the flowers.

This year the zinnias are growing like crazy. In addition to the seeds I planted there are volunteers coming up all over the place from the seeds spread naturally from last years flowers.

This gardenia is the only bloom from my three gardenia bushes in another flower bed.

Thank you to Cee for this weeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge -One Single Flower

First Day of Spring 2020

March 19, 2020March 20, 2020Posted in Butterflies, Flowers, Georgia, NatureTagged Bee, First Day of Spring, Georgia garden, Monarch on Milkweed, Spring, Spring blooms, Spring Flowers26 Comments

These days we are social distancing by staying home except to go to the store for supplies.

I grabbed my camera today to go outside in my yard in the glorious warm, sunny weather and capture a few of our first spring blooms. Enjoy!

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WordPress just reminded me that today is the 7th anniversary of the Wandering Dawgs blog. Thanks to all of you it’s been an amazing seven years.

I would not still be blogging if it wasn’t for you. I appreciate every one of you who follows the blog, reads the posts, likes a post, or leaves comments. You make it worth while to keep the blog going.

Thank you all! Happy First Day of Spring!