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- The Red Wing Garden Tour featured accordian players. What’s not great about that!
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- These daylilies were about to open at Lynn Steiner’s home. I like the house in the background.
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- What an artful way to create a hedge. This was taken on the St. Cloud Garden Tour.
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- These are my daughters in the gardens at Versailles outside of Paris. That’s the hubby marching ahead of us all.
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- I love photographing ray flowers.
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- Another Paris shot, taken by my daughter, of Notre Dame through a rose arbor across the Seine.
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- Mickey Mouse spuds.
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- Magnolia about to bloom.
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- The sun looks so striking on this clematis bloom.
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- A sea of hydrangea blooms. The shot was taken at the Hudson Garden Tour — a highlight of my summer.
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- Sedum and roses.
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- The pot has such great texture, and then there’s that owl.
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- Texture, texture, texture.
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- Roses at the MSHS State Fair garden.
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- I took this in late summer at the gorgeous garden of a Rice County Master Gardener. The little mushrooms add whimsy to the garden.
The pot has such great texture, and then there’s that owl.
Do you ever have that experience downloading photos where you go — wow! — I can’t believe I captured that image? Garden tours often leave me with that sensation — though it’s more due to the beauty of the gardens than any skill I bring to the party. This year, I visited Monet’s Garden in France, where nearly every picture was lovely. Here are a few other favorites from 2012. Interestingly, several of them were take on the same day — June 23 — when I visited the Hudson Wis. Garden Tour. The light was perfect that day — a little overcast, but bright — and the gardens were gorgeous. What was the favorite photo you took in 2012?
Happy New Year!
commonweeder says
January 7, 2013 at 6:16 pmWhat a lovely tour through your year. Giverny! I guess it would be hard to take a bad photo there. So much of good photography is about light so you got lucky with a whole June day with perfect light. My post today is about light, but I’m going to have to think a lot harder to choose a Favorite photo for 2012. Actually we just printed up photos of family and friends for 2012. When I put the photos in an album it made me think we really had a great year – gardens aside.
commonweeder says
January 14, 2013 at 6:31 amI’ve just visited the on-line digital edition of the Northern Gardener. Fabulous! Easy to navigate, beautiful photos and great information. Congratulations.
Penelope says
January 21, 2013 at 9:49 pmThese are wonderful! (I can just hear your voice saying, “And then there’s that owl.”