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The glow of spring

April 11, 2010
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Just a weed

March 31, 2010
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Holly

November 11, 2009
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Thai Orchids at St. Petersburg International Folk Fair 2009

November 6, 2009
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Click on any picture in this post for larger image. SPIFFS (www.spiffs.org/), the St. Petersburg International Folk Fair Society, is one of the beloved institutions of St. Pete. I’m honored to be their official photographer this year while their regular photographer is in the hospital. This year, the fair has been moved from the spring [...]

New York Sidewalk Flower Shops

August 29, 2009
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Except for the final photo in this post—to be explained shortly—all the photos in this post are of various New York City sidewalk flower shops and link to much larger images in Flickr. And here is a link to a full-sized slideshow of all the pictures in this post   In a bit of green, [...]

Crape Myrtle

June 27, 2009
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  Crape Myrtles…few things speak “southern living” more than crape myrtles to my eye. Well…gardenias and magnolias, do, of course! But, we’ll get to them in a later post. Right now, the streets of St. Pete are a riot of magenta, pink, and white with these trees almost everywhere. Because the shape of a crape [...]

Orchid Tree, Jacaranda, Royal Poinciana, and Tamarind

May 27, 2009
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crown of orchid tree Orchid Tree There was a good discussion, early this spring, in the comments for More flowering trees. Bloggers appreciate comments. They are part of what makes the blogging experience a pleasure. The discussion in this case revolved around some flowering trees here in St. Pete, trees that I found beautiful but [...]

More flowering trees

April 11, 2009

click here for larger image That’s a picture of “just” a bougainvillea. (How could anything so magnificent be “just” anything?) I say, “just,” though because they’re such a common plant here. They’re blooming right now and they’re breathtakingly gorgeous. Flowering trees and bushes in bloom are a sure sign it’s spring. Recently, there was an [...]

In Our Nature

March 7, 2009
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click here for larger image MINIATURE BOUQUET Once, while visiting San Francisco, a friend who was also there visiting, picked me up to go out to dinner. He was very excited and handed me a self-help book. He’d bought a copy for himself and a copy for me as a gift. This was not a [...]

Sunken Gardens

February 18, 2009
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(Note: all the individual pictures in this post link to larger images in Flickr; just click on the smaller images you see here.) CHILEAN FLAMINGOS A BOTANICAL EXPERIENCE That’s the “tag line” for the St. Petersburg Sunken Gardens. It’s well chosen. The afternoon I first visited the St. Petersburg Sunken gardens, was following a particularly [...]

a bit of green

November 5, 2008

A couple summers ago I had the chance to visit London. When I returned, I shared some snapshots with friends. One friend said something like (paraphrasing), “they know how to keep a bit of green in their lives don’t they?” I hadn’t recognized it at the time I took the pictures, but he’s absolutely right. [...]

The Florida Botanical Gardens

May 21, 2008
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The pictures in this post are all of the Florida Botanical Gardens and are in random order, unrelated to the text. Kids have “mountain top” experiences that key in to fundamental aspects of their intrinsic personalities and unlock an affinity that lasts for the rest of their lives. Visual memories come floating up throughout their [...]

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