Painted

Moss rose flowers. These pictures were taken one morning during the month of July in my grandmother's garden.They looked so beautiful and colorful in the morning sun...
The name of this post comes from my artist brother's reaction when he saw them. He said they looked like they're painted... Enjoy!

Cherries

 

Sour cherries photographed in my yard at the begging of summer. I'm actually not such a big fan of sour cherries, I like the sweetness of cherries more. But, right now, my yard is full of sour cherry trees, all the cherry trees we had in my childhood are gone, withered. 

But sour cherries still look good on camera, though. I love the natural red.

Purple flowers

 

I don't really know the name of these flowers. It's a cacti-like potted plant I, again, got from my aunt. It's a small plant with small flowers but I like it a lot. It was in full bloom when I took this picture, little purple flowers everywhere. 

I love cacti in general. I don't know if it's because they're so exotic or because they remind me of the western movies I so liked as a child, but they're one of my favorite plants when it comes to flowers that you keep in a pot. The first plant I ever bought for myself was a baby cactus with pink flowers. I still have it now but it hasn't bloomed since. I'm waiting for next spring to see if it happens again.

Royalty

White lily in my grandmother's garden. The lily is one of my favorite flowers (next to calla lilies), especially the white one, so I had to post at least one photo with lilies. Unfortunately, this year the lilies in my garden were few and not especially good looking so I had to go raiding through my grandmother's garden again.
I especially like white regal lilies because they are simply beautiful, they stand so tall and have a powerful smell. This one here is not royal, but it's bigger than the common lily so I'm guessing it's a hybrid. Still nice and beautiful. Enjoy!

Berry time

 

Red gooseberries growing in my garden. I took these two pictures earlier this summer. We also have black gooseberries but, unfortunately, I was away from home wile they were fully ripened, so I didn't have a chance to photograph them. I actually don't like eating gooseberries that much, but they do make for a pretty picture. 

The wanderer

A little snail taking refugee in my vegetable garden. This picture was taken at the begining of this summer. You can't see the actual snail here, only his house, but I asure you it's home, maybe resting. Every time I see a snail I remember how in school they taught us that the snail is the being that always carries its house on its back. That's how I came up with the title of this post. Hope you like the picture.

White softness

White jasmine flowers. Pictures taken in my garden at the beginning of this summer. I especially like the buds, they look so soft and pure!

High up flowers

Catalpa flowers. These photos are a bit old, about a month or so, when the tree was still in bloom. Right now the flowers are gone and the tree is full of long and slender beans, its fruits I guess (don't take my word for it, though, like I said in a previous post, I'm not exactly a botanist). I like this tree's flowers. For me it's odd how they look like orchids but they grow up in a tree. Still beautiful, though.
This tree grows in North America and East Asia so it's definitely an exotic tree for an Eastern European region, but I guess that's one of the reasons I find it fascinating. If your wondering, though, where do I have these exotic plants in my garden, well, I have an aunt that is a horticulturist and she always brings us these type of uncommon and unheard of plants as gifts. I like it, it's broadening my horizons.
Now, with no further ado, enjoy the catalpa.

Roses explosion

I gathered all the pictures of roses I ever took in one post. All the pictures were taken during the month of June, most of them in my garden and some in my grandmother's garden. Enjoy the vivid colors and the multitude of roses! 

Diamonds

A red rose and sparkly rain drops. I like these pictures, the drops look so nice and the petals are like velvet. Click on the pictures for a better view.
These pictures were taken at the beginning of this month, in the evening, after the rain stopped. Roses season is now over in my garden, most of them have already withered, but they were so beautiful while it lasted and their smell always filled up the atmosphere.

Summer colours

Red poppies, purple salvia and thistles. Part two of the photos I promised in this post. I initially thought there would be more but these are the ones that survived the selection. They have a bit of a rough and rugged feeling about them and, of course, they are a nice portrait of summer.
The sapling you see on the sky background in the first picture is an apricot tree. Apricot trees are really common here, where I live and the one in this picture is a wild one that I guess grew from a kernel, no one planted it.

Wilde purple

 

Salvia flowers. I took a trip at the beginning of this month, to visit some relatives and I had the opportunity to photograph a lot of wildflowers of all colors, a blue sky and some beautiful landscapes that just smelled like summer. These two pictures here are some of the ones I took then.There are more to come in the next days. I hope you'll like them.

These pictures were kind of hard to take. I had only a short amount of time for photographing and the sun was so bright that I could hardly see the display of my camera. So, most of the time I just had to go with my instinct when it came to framing and such. I still like the outcome, though.

   

Rainy days

While I selected the pictures I realized that everything in this post is green: green grapes, green cherries, vines and leafs. It was unintentional. This is a collection of pictures I took one rainy day last month, while it was still raining some. I had to protect my camera from the drops. Enjoy the green and the rainy feeling!

Green fields

 

Green barley. I took this pictures last month in a barley field near my garden. I was drawn to it one Sunday afternoon by the way the wind moved through the grains, making it shine from place to place and looking like small, soft waves in an ocean. The fact that I had to jump a fence made of barbed wire to get there it's just a small detail and it only transformed the whole shoot in a memorable little adventure for me.

Invaders

 

Blue Cornflower bud surrounded by ants. Picture taken last month, in my grandmother's garden. Believe it or not, I didn't notice the ants until I downloaded the photo from my camera. But I believe that way it makes for an even more interesting shot. (Click on the picture for a better view of the bud and the ants)  

Sunny

 

A yellow flower from my garden. Unfortunately I don't know it's name. My mother, who planted it, doesn't know and I didn't have any success trying to find out online, so I can't tell you what type of plant it is. That doesn't take away from it's beauty, though. I like this shot. I like the irregular shape of the petals and you can almost feel how soft they are through the picture. I hope you like it too. 

The flowers in my window

 

White geranium. Photos taken last month after the rain. 

Geraniums are some of my mothers favorite flowers, so she has a lot of them. I didn't use to like them, until I saw this one. It was just too beautiful.

Yellow

Yellow roses in the back of my garden. Both pictures were taken the same day, first one in the afternoon and the second one in the morning. The angle is a bit different, though. I would love to hear which one you like the most.

Red poppy

I took this picture last Sunday, in my quest to find more flowers to photograph. It's a wild poppy and it doesn't exactly come from my garden, but it is close. I really wanted to find a field of poppies to photograph, I like the wild and summery feeling they bring, but i couldn't find one. I don't think I've seen one of those since childhood. So I had to settle with the few poppies that were growing in the field near my garden.

Busy bee

 

Apple blossoms and a bee doing its job. These are two of the first pictures I ever took with a digital camera. It was during my "blossom mania" time and if you are wandering, yes, I did chase that bee around hoping I could take a good picture of it. But I don't remember if in these two photos it's the same bee or not because I took several pictures of several bees then.

There is something about the second picture that I like. I used a version of it for the month of March in a calendar I made.