What really helped kick off my current obsession with ground-level macro was my discovery of photographer Kim Leuenberger and her completely awesome Traveling Cars Adventures series. I wanted to put my own spin on her idea, so I took a tiny ’55 Chevy Nomad and a mini 2001 Mini Cooper to the coast with me and played with a couple of […]
Two of my very favorite books growing up, and even to this day, have been Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice was always shrinking and growing and being forced to examine her world in completely new ways. I liked to play at being Alice: peering toward the edges of mirrors and pretending that backward […]
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week, three wildflowers and a cultivated garden beauty. Wild iris Geraniums (thanks to Mom, when Google failed me!) Purple wildflowers. These are everywhere in the spring; but Google as I might, I couldn’t come up with a proper name. Everybody seems to just call them California wildflowers… Sweet peas (thank you, […]
Hollyhock flower seen in my neighborhood. These flowers originated in Asia and Europe and are now widely popular with gardeners. Kyoto, Japan, holds an annual Hollyhock Festival every May. For white flowers, I need look no farther than the camellias in my driveway. We have two plants; one produces white petals and the other produces pink/red flowers. Now is the […]