Nature: Bleeding Heart

I looked out the backdoor the other day and discovered there are Bleeding Heart flowers in the yard.  Every week there seems to be something new and beautiful blooming.  

Nature: Thorns

I am acquainted with an insane rose bush.  The thing has a mind of its own and a personality far too grand for the trellis it's involved with. Said bush and trellis are a dysfunctional couple and I have suffered the fallout on more than one occasion of their thorny battles.  

Nature: Spring Flowers

It's Spring!  The warm weather insisted my camera and I spend some time outside. The first photo was what I was aiming for ... a simple close up full of rich color.  The second photo, was the very first photo I took on my excursion today.  Of course, I forgot to check my camera settings which were still all set up for nighttime photography! Needless to say, it turned out overexposed and rather crappy.  So, I ran it through my editing software, turned it black and white fiddled around with the exposure, tone, added some grain and other bells and whistles to come up with what you see below.  It kind of reminds me of something taken with inferred film.

Camera Phone Chronicles: Tulip

Springtime brings flowers and for a couple of weeks now, flowers have been popping up in that wild mess known as the front garden.  Today I was walking by the window and noticed that tulips have started randomly popping up around the place...no rhyme to reason, just popping up.  There are at least four different areas of the garden that the tulips have decided to display themselves.  So, I pulled out my camera phone and snapped a shot!