Are you tiring of my macros? If so, I don't blame you, but after my Saturday evening effort, I made a few more photos on Sunday morning.
It was hot again! and we would eschew our walkie again! so I stepped out for a few minutes and grabbed some quick photos, such as this daylily. They just began to bloom yesterday.
And ... another echinacea photo.
This is my first rudbeckia, yellow/orange coneflower, photo from my own garden in a long time and maybe forever. We did have some failures quite awhile ago, and I didn't replace those plants, but we are trying again this year and in a different spot. I hope they endure this time because I appreciate them greatly.
Sue has flower pots located here and there. I showed you a photo of the one situated by the sidewalk not too long ago, but this is just a section of that same pot. It's a really nice, colourful display, although my shot isn't perfectly focussed.
Here's a bit of another pot. It has struggled a bit, so Sue has recently moved it to a sunnier spot. We hope for the best.
I retreated indoors and awaited the men's Wimbledon finals. It was a pretty good contest but not elite. The two players, Sinner and Alcaraz, apparently put on a show for the ages just a few ago on the red clay of Paris, but Alcaraz wasn't quite in top form on the green grass of Wimbledon. It was still completive, however, unlike the ladies final the previous day.
Meanwhile, this Monday is going to be another very hot day, but it’s not too torrid now, at 7 o’clock, so I think we’ll head out for a short walk very soon, for we’ve been missing it for a few days. You have a good one.
Early morning is the only time to walk when it's so blisteringly hot.
ReplyDeleteI like macro photographs - they show extraordinary detail.
The same weather will be repeating here this week starting Tuesday 🥵 Out
ReplyDeleteR early morning trek will be to the supermarket. The close ups are always welcomed and appreciated.
We've been lucky at the lake -- just a little cooler. Warm enough to enjoy the outdoors; not so hot we really can't. We're seeing lots of smoke from the fires. Well, more like haze with bad air quality.
ReplyDeleteGood to see your flowering day lilies. Ours have all succumbed already. May try to find a few shots I took, things have gotten all disarrayed lately. I now have a new monitor which makes seeing things ever so much easier. So perhaps getting new glasses will just be the icing on the cake.
ReplyDeleteToday and tomorrow will be tropical here. The flowers are pretty. I'm a no-go in the early morning, so no chance for a walk if I wanted to.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I hope you got a cooler walk in, always makes the day better.
ReplyDeleteWow, that beaut of a first photo is a good lesson in moving closer to your subject.
ReplyDeleteThe smoke is pretty bad here today so I won't be going far.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't the best tennis.
We have a heat advisory for this week too--90s! Ugh. Petunias do well for me; they like the sun. I like the unfocused shot, very impressionistic.
ReplyDeleteThese are gorgeous, dear friend 🧡
ReplyDeleteI was hoping for some rain today. But so far nada. Posted the first part of our Quebec trip today since you asked about it awhile ago.
ReplyDeleteI really like macro photography…. but sadly, the phone does not do your Macros justice. Too small an image. I tend to prefer Macros exorbitantly large, even larger usually than my computer monitor (admittedly that is a smallish, 15 year old one).
ReplyDeleteBut I can appreciate how beautiful your Macros would be if printed to 12x16 or larger!!!!
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Not phone photos, but I do not upload high res to Blogger.
DeleteHah…. I am sorry…. I wasn’t being clear….. I meant my VIEWING of your Macros on MY phone does not allow ME to recognize their full beauty, and even when I open your site in my smallish computer monitor, I still do not benefit from the full beauty of those Macros as I would be with a pleasantly large print. Again, I apologize that I was not clear in my thought.
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I love the creamy pastel bokeh in the first two shots
ReplyDeleteThe coneflower picture is really nice, different.
ReplyDeleteHot here too, but a bit cooler than last week, thank goodness.
I have petunias that are simply not up to the sun they are getting. This has been a rough summer.
ReplyDeleteYour flowers look like they're at their peak for the season.
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