The Snail and the Lenten Rose
Hellebore Gone to Seed, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The hellebore, or Lenten Rose as it sometimes called, turns out to have a pretty weird life cycle.…
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April 30, 2006
Pimping for a Plant
Venus Fly Trap Digesting, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Parenthood has led me down many unexpected avenues: towards emotional and spiritual growth, endless nights without sleep, hospital…
April 29, 2006
Mallow, Mucilage, and Bokeh
Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I've been watching my neighbor Brett's mallow tree with great interest. Not because I covet a mallow tree, or his mallow…
April 28, 2006
Upside-Down, Face-Up Columbine
Columbine, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This columbine in my garden is unusual because it is upside down, for a columbine. Upside down for a columbine means…
April 25, 2006
Where Did the Ladybug Lose Her Spots?
Ladybug, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. People keep remarking about the "spotless" condition of this ladybug. (Actually, I can see one or two small spots when I…
April 24, 2006
White Anglo Saxon Protestant
Wasp 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. OK, well not really! This is a wasp of the insect kind, of course. This guy (or more likely, gal)…
April 23, 2006
Love in a Mist
Love-in-a-Mist 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Love in a mist, the common name for nigella damascena, is a beautiful but scary-looking flower up close and personal.…
April 20, 2006
Sunshine in the Gazania Forest
Sunshine in the Gazania Forest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Gazanias, also called African Daisies, are easy to grow around here and gourgeous. The flower, which is…
April 20, 2006
Coral Bells and Memory Card Loss
Coral Bells, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I've never before appreciated the wisdom of the advice to use smaller-sized memory cards rather than a single larger one.…
April 20, 2006
Is Nature’s Imperfection Perfect Enough?
Dragonfly, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this dragonfly last summer in Blake Garden. I had a cooperative model, and basically this was a grab-and-shoot situation.…
April 20, 2006
The Iris That Bloom in the Spring
Iris, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's great to have Iris blooming in my garden again. This is an extravagantly beautiful flower. Once established, it keeps on…
April 20, 2006
Flowers Cry Too
Flowers Cry Too, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This photo, of my isopogon formosus, was taken with the Nikon macro flash kit. Since the flowers of this…
April 19, 2006
Waves on the Shore
Waves on the Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The waves on the shore make a pattern like lace or some wonderful texture. Julian and I visited…
April 18, 2006
Macro Photography with the Nikon Close-up Speedlight Remote Kit
Orchid Water Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I recently bought a Nikon Close-up Speedlight Remote Kit to try out adding flash capabilities to my macro repertoire.…
April 17, 2006
No Escargot: We Want our Dahlia
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The Dahlia is a wonderful flower. It's elegant, almost baroque, and at the same time somehow simple. If a rose is…
April 16, 2006
Poppy Three Ways
Luminous Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The saying goes, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." Although why you'd want to skin a cat,…
April 16, 2006
Here I Am
Here I Am, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. My delight in photographing water drops continues. Someone on Flickr suggested that one of these days I'd morph into…
April 16, 2006
Sun Catcher
Sun Catcher, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. When I take one of these extreme close-up high depth-of-field water drop images, it's really hard to see what the…
April 11, 2006