View allAll Photos Tagged WindowBox
A couple of young squirrels have been practicing their digging skills on my garden plants. The planter box on my railing has been a squirrel-favorite for years—anything I plant there gets uprooted and left for dead; the steps and ground below sprinkled with dirt ;-) a series to follow in the comments...all clickable for a larger view
Back in 2008 we wrote, illustrated and published "The Cat Who Lost Its Meow" for all ages, as there are so many levels of interest in this book . . . its simple illustrations are deceiving, but once readers realize the contents were supposed to have been created by a young child while writing and sketching in a journal, while processing a loss . . . the 3-part story begins to come together,
and the *true* author reveals him/herself!
The highlight for us was being invited by The Children's Museum to set a table which illustrated our book. All proceeds from the dinner event were donated to the organization. If you're interested, you can check on my album below.
www.flickr.com/photos/colorfulexpressions/albums/72157613...
The book is out of print, but still available from us.
The above 3-dimentional box is one of the "offshoots" from various one-of-a-kind items we created.
Today, I’m hoping to find some purple and green hues. Even though it’s still early in the season, I came across a charming window box filled with freshly planted pansies while strolling along Main Street. Although there aren’t many flowers in bloom just yet, discovering these lovely pansies was a delightful surprise.
While I am learning, I wouldn't say I have a "green thumb" by any means. What I do think I have, is an appreciation for composition, aesthetic, and balance.
Walking around Charleston, you will see a number of garden boxes lining the streets outside these historic homes. Here, someone has obviously put in a lot of time and thought into a beautiful and well balanced presentation....and I can appreciate that.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm
Delicate geraniums in an unusual window box setting in Eguisheim, Alsace. Lovely shadows on the rough textured wall.
Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego.
Taken 10 days too early to submit to 52.5 of 2010, week 35: Theme: Colour.
Tropaeolum majus
Native: South/Central America
Commonly called "nasturtium", this edible plant has 'Nectar Spurs', like Columbine flowers, where nectar is stored.
The fresh new leaves on our boxwood hedge provided the light green background..
Daisy slept in the summer house windowbox all afternoon as I was prepaing the garden beds. It's the best place from which to suprvise. LOL
A brief series covering Swiss flowers and window boxes.
Schloss Fuerstenau, Graubunden
Rollei 35SE (Singapore), Rollei HFT Sonnar 40mm f/2.8,
Fujifilm Velvia 50
Tetenal E6
Filmomat vs. 2.0
Nikon Super Coolscan 5000ED
Poor Stella. Always the low man on the totem pole. I SO wish this cat would grow a pair, ya know?
She seems to be "fair game" for all the other cats.
Simon and Dora do okay with her, and I"ve actually seen them playing together....but Leo pushes her around, and Floydd is an absolute terror. Ozzie and Vinny mess with her, but I think they're just playing, although I don't think she sees it that way.
Sally seems indifferent towards her.
Stella likes to go outside, but if the boys catch her out there, they chase her. Going out the cat flap is too risky. Always a good chance of being ambushed there, so on the nice days (before fly season!) we open up the screen on the southside ...she can step out onto the windowbox and make her escape on the side of the house when nobody is looking .
The beach this weekend was awesome...this shot was taken in the little town of Gulfport Beach. This restaurant located in this old building was such a head turner for me. Old cement building, old wooden shutters, quaint flower box and that awesome old distorted window showcasing the reflected beauty of the day. Such an enjoyable sight. Enjoy!
A house in Fitzroy Square, central London, which played host to two literary giants – though not at the same time.
The upper plaque reads, 'George Bernard Shaw lived in this house from 1887 to 1898. From the coffers of his genius he enriched the world'.
It was here that he published his early plays, notably Arms and the Man in 1894 and Mrs Warren's Profession in 1898. The highly quotable sentence on the plaque is what Shaw's housekeeper wrote on a note she attached to his gate to announce his death.
The blue plaque commemorates the residency of Virginia Woolf, the novelist and critic, who lived here between 1907 and 1911. The plaque was installed by the Greater London Council in 1974; the GBS brass plaque by St Pancras Borough Council in 1951.
All this plus glorious blood-red geraniums!
Cusco, Peru (near Palacio del Inca)
Proverbs 3:23
Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.
When you cannot afford real window box and shutters. Painted on the outside wall of a building in downtown Double Springs, Alabama.
I love a window flower box and ones with geraniums always remind me of the Mediterranean. Saw these walking the streets of South Melbourne on my way to meet the Famous Flickr Five+ group yesterday morning.
Nikon D90, AF-S Nikkor 18-55, HDR from a single image. The afternoon Jerusalem sunlight was so intense, that I put out an umbrella to filter it.
Happy Fence Friday!
I suspect the umbrella and plastic is a homemade device to protect the plants. About a week ago a lot of Spain was affected by haze (calima in Spanish) coming from thr North of Africa.
A brief series covering Swiss flowers and window boxes.
Contax 645, Vacuum back, Zeiss Apo-Makro-Planar 120mm f/4
Fuji Velvia 100 (220)
Nikon Super Coolscan 9000ED
Luna, taking a break from supervising the gardening chores. He photo bombed almost everything I shot today. : ) He's a pensioner and he's almost completely deaf but he's still got it. Taken in front of the summer house where his kitten years were spent before it was converted to a summer retreat.
Textures thanks to: Flypaper, Fly Edges and .jenny.
Best viewed on black. Just click on the photo.