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Decaying

I absolutely adore hydrangeas! The huge, fluff clusters of tiny, delicate flowers. They can grow to quite large bushes with dark leaves and look just spectacular!

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At the very end of the vegetable garden, where nothing useful is growing anymore, is a wild zone. No fruits, no veggies... just some self-sown flowers and weeds

Fly away

It's been a while since I took some macro shots of the fluffy seeds that some plants produce. No, it's not only dandelions, though they are the most common and popular.

Seeds in the making

Autumn in a garden is full of decaying plants, flowers without petals, drying seed pods... generally all the good stuff. And there is a lot to shoot! On a good,

Distraction is a powerful thing!

You have it all planned and a whole day to do it. Easy peasy... it's not that much after all. And then when you think you manage with all and watch some movies at

No touching, please.

This plant could be best buddies with my cat. They both seem to follow one rule: "Look, but don't touch!" These are Datura stramonium empty seed pods.

Summer drought

I could dramatize here a bit and say that I don't remember how rain looks like. I could. Because it has been a long time since it rained. The sky is blue, the sun

Not that pretty

One can't shoot only the pretty things all the time. The colorful flowers, pretty grasses dancing on the wind, butterflies, kitties and all things happy. Sometimes

Misty day

I like bokeh on photographs. A lot. The bubbly happy one that makes your head dizzy. Absolutely adore it and don't have enough of it. But when it is cloudy and with

I want to fly away

This is not a regular dandelion. Their seeds have different shape and are smaller. I am not even sure if they have so many sharp teeth. I know the flowers are also

Skeletons

This would be quite a typical summer view around here. Dried up flower leftovers rocking on the wind. Except that I shot those back in February when usually things

It's that time of the year again

Confess... Did you think of Christmas hen you rad the title? I bet ya did! :) It is not about Christmas though. It is about the hot and dry summer. The time with

Opposites

Just yesterday I was showing you probably the most red flower I own. Bright, intensive, sparkly and loving the sun. Boost of colour in a small plant. Today we have

This is where it starts - seeds

My balcony is not always the prettiest and cleanest. I don't remove dry flowers as soon as they start to fade. I wait... I wait for the seed pods to and new seeds

Can't touch this

And I still did. I'm a little rebel like that. I found those in the middle of lawn a coupe of weeks ago. Few short stems with those very spiky and mean looking seed

On the wrong side

I guess it all depends how you look at it. They might be growing on the wrong side of the fence trying to get to the other side. Or the fence was put where it doesn't

October day

Nature is calming down. That's how I see all that is happening around in the Fall. And I love that calm. Plants don't scream with colours anymore, but accept the

Let's fly away...

You know (or not) that I like seed pods and all the dry stuff that are left after the growing season. Because of the textures, shapes and that they don't resample

Flower replacement.

I have completely missed seeing flowers of those bushes this year. It is like there was no spring. Or rather there was - a very happy spring because most humans

The long nose creatures

Those are my mum's Rhododendrons. Or rather were... Their blooming time is not very long, but they surely make up for it with they gorgeous, big flowers. And then