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Bed 3. Not a lot of sun. Here we planted a partial shade mix of flowers and some bee attracting flowers (to pollinate the zucchini). Am hoping they come up. Nothing yet, but they have only really had one day of sun (we planted these June 8). Allysium was planted as a seedling so it should look good ;).
Flowers in our Backyard
Chandler, Arizona
May 12, 2012
Shot with my Nikon D5000 with a Nikkor 55-200mm Telephoto lens.
This is a snapshot of the final design we're trying to achieve this year. The design of the deck was done with Google's Sketchup (http://sketchup.google.com) application.
Hendrix & I had a wonderful Friday hanging out in Encinitas with Chris & Mike. We hung out in Chris's parents beautiful, eclectic, hodge-podge of an amazing garden at their house, it's so wonderful, there are fun surprises hiding around every corner.
Our day involved bubble blowing, strawberry picking, turtle feeding and Mexican food eating, it pretty much perfect.
So enjoy the pictures and have yourself a virtual garden tour!
Our house's backyard with a couple of centimeters of snow that fell last night. The snow will probably be gone by this evening as the temperature is supposed to get up to 4C or so today.
Pics of a neighborhood juvie Cooper's Hawk that terrorizes the neighbor (and the backyard) birds. Almost everyday, even though I don't see him (or her), I hear the local alarms going off (Blue Jays).
What a great end of the day. First Swallowtail Kites when leaving Gatorland.
Then a Barn Owl flying 10 ft above my head and finally a Great Horned Owl right in my Backyard. Turned out quite well - considering that I had to guesstimate the focus and was shooting ISO 1600 handheld at 600mm f8 with +3 EV and the Flash to max...