On a really overcast Tuesday, Mr. Frog’s colors stand out brighter than usual under the flash. I was trying to get a Turk’s Cap cherry as nice as the one Pam Penick has, but it’s just too dark, I guess. So I gave up and shot Mr. Frog, instead. Anyway, enjoy her garden. Ours is not doing as well this fall, though she surely took her pictures on a sunnier day.
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The antique roses are budding like crazy, even Zephirine Drouhin, which has taken a leisurely four years to finally get settled, has thirty or more buds on it. Old Blush, always prolific, is already blooming away. But nature ain’t a greenhouse. Here come the thrips (also called thunderflies) to chew their way through a bud or five. We must await salvation: the ladybugs who will eat the thrips.
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