I've decided that maybe the key to making beautiful photos (as Jess does over at
Sweet Amandine) is to consistently surround myself with beautiful things.
For a brief period a few years ago, I spent more of my time making and printing photos than doing almost anything else. Anyone who knows me has heard me say that the best part of the process was being in the darkroom and experiencing what my (batty) photo teacher called the "alchemical process" of developing photos. I liked to watch the photo paper swimming around in the developer and the faint ghost of an image creeping onto the paper and then the full, vivid image appearin all in a rush.
I feel sort of the same way about my plants. I like counting the buds of new leaves and blossoms and watching them unfurl by the day. And now I have vegetable plants that are similarly exciting to watch! And so, here are a few mundane flower and veg shots to get myself back in the swing of things.
Figure 1. My sweet little "Bell Boy" pepper plant! Near the top you see two teeny little peppers and at the bottom, one bigger one! The biggun is about two inches long and about an inch in diameter.
Figure 2. One of the meaty little Peonies I bought yesterday.
Figure 3. The meatier of the two Peonies I bought yesterday.
Figure 4. And look what they did today!
Figure 5. You can
imagine how I'm ogling these sweet little green buds. And the actual snappy blooms aren't bad either.
Granted, I cheated by buying an orchid from IKEA that already had buds (but no blooms!), but I'm convinced that my influence has saved it from languishing in that grim warehouse. This was the thanks I received for rescuing it.
Figure 1. My sweet little "Bell Boy" pepper plant! Near the top you see two teeny little peppers and at the bottom, one bigger one! The biggun is about two inches long and about an inch in diameter.
Figure 2. One of the meaty little Peonies I bought yesterday.
Figure 3. The meatier of the two Peonies I bought yesterday.
Figure 4. And look what they did today!
Figure 5. You can imagine how I'm ogling these sweet little green buds. And the actual snappy blooms aren't bad either.
