My Secret Garden

I am waiting for this alien to visit my garden again :) ----- Olympus C-220Z

Have a great and healthy weekend! HFF! ----- Olympus C220Z

my Mom's favorite azalea ----- Olympus C-220Z (2-megapixel, 3x optical zoom digital camera but it was surprisingly capable... sometimes it was)

Stay positive! HFF! ----- Olympus C8080WZ

once upon a time in my secret garden ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

Ouch! ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

Have a great and healthy weekend! HFF! ----- Olympus C8080WZ

Another specimen from my late Dad's 'collection' - hibiskus blooming every year with multiple gorgeous hot red flowers. It stopped blooming after Dad had passed away. I care for it. It looks healthy and has beautiful green leaves but not a single flower since that time. ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

Another sample of my late Dad's favorite flowers - fuchsias this time. They were hanging around our house and Dad managed to keep them appropriately watered. But this shot was taken just after a summer rain. ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

Epiphyllum Ackermanii - my Dad's favorite flowers. They used to bloom in July (for his name day: July 20). Dad cared for them for many years. Then (when he was getting older) he neglected them and eventually put them in a far corner of a garden shed. More than a year after Dad had passed away I found three pots of them there. They seemed to be totally dead but I took a piece of one and planted it in fresh soil and pot. It took several months to see it awakening and in May this year it produced its first flower. But this is a shot of my Dad's flowers taken 17 years ago. ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

Sometimes I like them light-painted, sometimes I like them in B&W, sometimes I like them tinted. ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

----- Olympus C8080WZ

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas... ----- Viburnum opulus 'Roseum' - snowball tree - boule de neige ----- Pentacon Six + Ilford HP5+

----- Pentacon Six + Biometar 2.8/80 + Ilford HP5+

Once upon ago... I used digital cameras and shot flowers :) ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

wild snapdragons - - - - - Kiev 88 + Fujicolor Pro 160S

----- Mamiya 645AF + Fujicolor Pro 160S

Once upon a time... Garden poppies invaded my garden. They were everywhere. They were killing my Mom's favorite lilies. I eventually managed to get rid of them. Now I know that I should have let them stay. Lilies are almost gone (all but one). Goat weed is thriving. ----- Mamiya 645AF + Fujicolor Pro 160S