walking to work, June 26

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It was wet, the morning of the 26th. The rain had stopped by the time I started for work, but everything was wet.

Oak leaves.





Daisy. I took this pic, positive that it would be blurry because it was so wet (camera doesn't like to focus on wet stuff). I offer it here more out of astonishment that it is sharp than because I think it is an interesting image.





Green, green, green. And I like the vanishing perspective.





Spent roses. Love the emphatic star-shaped-ness.





Not-spent rose. Kinda blurry original.





Fresco filter. Kinda liking what happened to the colors, and the dramatic darkness....





Spent rhododendron. Liking the excellent pistils.....





Asiatic lily. Mmmmmm. Orange.





West Park, on a wet morning. Watercolor filter.

The fence really makes this one, along with the extra light on the grass in the background.





Correopsis. Have a look at the bigger version (click on this one), if you like -- did you know they had those long snaky hair things in the center? I didn't.....





Thistle.





More spent roses.









I have always wondered why there aren't delicious mulberries. Mulberries are full-sized trees, and they are absolutely COVERED with fruit. Fruit which, unfortunately, are rather tasteless and quite seedy (and the little skinny stem doesn't like to come out). You'd think that someone would breed a lovely one, and make millions of dollars selling them to fruit farmers.....

The trees are very vigorous. Almost impossible to kill, even if you try.

The best thing about them is that they fruit about the same time as raspberries, and if you are lucky enough to have both in your yard, the birds will eat the mulberries and leave the raspberries alone.....

Once upon a time, when I lived in an apartment building with no parking, I parked blocks away. In a space right under a mulberry tree. My car looked like this pavement.

One time I came out of the grocery, and, walking to the car, noticed a man looking at the berries on the car. He looked a bit, then picked up a berry and ate it. :-) They're not nasty, just not ... nice.





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