Rice Park - St. Paul, MN

It would look even better if I had taken the photo later in the day.

Pink Flower

Used to know the name of this plant.  It kind of looks like a bottle brush.  They are in bloom right now at Como conservatory.  I went hoping to see foxglove blooming but it doesn’t look like they planted any this year which give me the perfect excuse to go back next year.  The sites and smells are amazing.

lily

It seems like I spent most of last year looking for work/business.  It all found me this year and it has been hard to find the time to take photos for fun.  I have been spending much of my weekends and evenings with real estate clients or photography clients. . . .and I have other clients too.

Marjory McNeely Conservatory at Como Park

I photograph the sunken garden every year.  The flowers change with the seasons and I always enjoy it.  I like to think my photographs of it have improved over the years.  There are millions of photographs like this.  There are a few photographers in this photo too.

Hanging flower baskets - downtown St. Paul

I don’t remember taking this picture.  I must have been walking or riding my bike past the science museum.  It was especially nice to see the flowers this year.

false sunflower

I took this with my camera and processed it on my iPad as I sometimes like to do.   I used an effect called “dutch Light” on the DynaLight HD app.   These are blooming along the roads and in the woods.  Go out and enjoy them before they are replaced by a blanked of s___w.

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Grey headed cone flowers

These are favorites of mine because they look like they are dancing.  I used this one as a background or wall paper as it is called on my computer.  If you like it go ahead and download.  They like to bloom starting in mid to late July and are mostly done before the end of August.   I love to photograph flowers and I have read that flower photographs are very common and really no that interesting yet according to my Google Analyitics for this site there are a lot of people looking at the flower photographs . . did I say thank you?

forget me not

If you are ever walking near the woods and find a clump of forget-me-nots you will not forget it.  They are oh so tiny and very beautiful.

Flowers reflected

I have not gotten to go any place exciting this summer but there are places to go that are close by and I guess that helps.  These are at Como Park where there is always something in bloom even in the winter.

Cone Flowers

These are often mistaken for black eyed Susan’s which will bloom next month.  These posed for me along wall by the power plant on the river.