It's Not Work, It's Gardening!: panorama

Showing posts with label panorama. Show all posts

Showing posts with label panorama. Show all posts

Back in the garden again!

>> Monday, July 31, 2017 – bamboo, cleanup, panorama, pruning

As you probably have noticed, I've been going long stretches this summer without posting -- sometimes only one post a week (or less)! Mainly this is due to a busy schedule that leaves little time for gardening, but it's also due to the weather, as it's just been a very hot summer. Until now that is.

High temperatures around 85ºF (29ºC) with lower than normal humidity have given me the will to spend some time working outside. With a long list of tasks to tackle -- some of them being quite labor intensive -- I just jumped in with the first thing I saw: Milkweed.

Monday Miscellany

>> Monday, August 1, 2016 – foliage, panorama, project, trees

So many random things happen and fill up the phone storage, sometimes it's fun to just go back through and take a look at what I've forgotten to share.

Like this combo of trees in my stepson's yard. They're technically the neighbor's trees, but what a visual delight (taken in late June when it felt like early August already).

A view of the back garden

>> Tuesday, June 28, 2016 – foliage, panorama

Since you saw a little of the garden that surrounds the patio in yesterday's post about the bananas, I thought I'd show you a little bit more today.

This is mainly for comparison later in the summer (and for winter soul recharging).

More cleanup stages

>> Tuesday, March 18, 2014 – cleanup, panorama

I recently remarked two things: first, that my spring cleanup has started. Not that spring is actually here yet, as yesterday's low of 19ºF (-7ºC) made perfectly clear, but the warm days are coming more regularly now, breaking up the cold, giving hope to those of us longing for spring.

Second, I noted that I approach garden cleanup in stages, in multiple passes. The first pass does a pretty good job but doesn't leave the beds "finished". I'll come back in a week or two (or more) and give them the finishing touches if needed. This past weekend I took first pass at my "prairie" beds, starting with the groundcover bamboo on its border -- its camera-blinding brightness in the sunlight got my attention first, and you have to start somewhere.

Move views of the colorful back yard

>> Tuesday, November 5, 2013 – autumn, color, panorama

After months of being surrounded by greens of all shades, the fall blush of color lasts for such a brief time -- usually just a few days or a week at most. I've been paying more attention this year to these colors in my own yard than I usually do, taking a larger number of photographs than normal.

Today I'll show you not only some nice focal points of color in my back yard, but what the space looks like as a whole. I didn't do as much of that in this year's posts as I should have, possibly because it gets difficult to see everything when all of the plants are at their peaks. Now that some plants are gone, leaves have started dropping, and colors are changing, it's much easier to see. Does that make sense?

Roadtrip ends: Leaving the Badlands

>> Friday, October 18, 2013 – panorama, travel

It's been a few days since I last posted about our August roadtrip, but today it ends, as we leave Badlands National Park in South Dakota.

If you remember, I chose the less-scenic route when we first entered the park. This meant that we just had to take the longer route out of the park -- even though it meant that we'd be going west for a while instead of east. I'm so glad we did though, as there were some fantastic views!

Arriving in Badlands National Park

>> Wednesday, October 2, 2013 – panorama, travel

Our visit to Mount Rushmore was just a couple of hours long, but the unplanned detour had us arriving at our the final real destination of our trip a little later than planned: Badlands National Park in South Dakota.

(Yes we also stopped at Wall Drug. My neighbor is from South Dakota, and informed us that this stop was required and that we would be quizzed.) We weren't sure what to expect here, as the surrounding area is mainly grassland -- as seen above.

Devils Tower, the next day

>> Tuesday, September 24, 2013 – bench, lichen, panorama, stones, travel

The evening bike ride really tired us out, but after a good night's sleep we were ready to break camp and see the tower up close with sufficient light.

We left pretty early as we knew from the previous evening that there were limited parking spots for RVs up there. (That's the view from our campsite with the tower lit by the morning light. So nice!)

Leaving Grand Teton NP, seeing Wyoming

>> Sunday, September 22, 2013 – color, grasses, panorama, travel

The next morning (after the hike) we left Grand Teton National Park as early as we could, which was around 7:00 AM. We knew we had a long day of driving ahead of us and as we learned the first night of this trip it's no fun pulling into a campground late at night.

After an hour of driving or less, we started getting a taste of what central Wyoming has to offer, with wonderful views everywhere!

Grand Tetons National Park Day 2

>> Sunday, September 15, 2013 – panorama, travel

Yesterday we took a short hike around the Colter Bay area of Grand Tetons National Park. This morning we decided to take a much longer hike. (If you're following along, this was Tuesday, Aug 20, the 8th day of our roadtrip.)

Although this hike wouldn't take us along the shores of the lake, it still promised wonderful views of the mountains, forests, a couple of smaller lakes -- just an assortment of the beautiful things you expect to see on a hike in this part of the country. It certainly didn't disappoint, as the above view was one of the first we encountered.

Grand Tetons preview

>> Saturday, September 14, 2013 – panorama, travel, water

After three single nights spent in different campsites in Yellowstone, we left to the south and entered Grand Tetons National Park, where we would be spending two nights in the same place.

This post is just a preview of what we saw there, as I just don't have the energy to write much after putting these panoramas together and retouching about a hundred dirt and dust specks. I really wish I had cleaned my lenses before this trip!

Yellowstone: Fountain Paint Pot

>> Monday, September 9, 2013 – panorama, texture, travel, water

Monday morning (Aug 19) in Yellowstone and we're leaving the park today, but there's much to see along the way. Remember that on our drive up to Madison we passed a few spots that we decided to hit on the way back? We'll stop at them today!

It's all about the hydrothermal features in this part of the park, so I hope you like steam, water, and color because that's mainly what you'll be getting in the next few posts. Our first stop was Fountain Paint Pot. Not as colorful as some pools in the park, but still a nice way to start the day!

Roadtrip continues: Madison area of Yellowstone

>> Thursday, September 5, 2013 – grasses, panorama, travel, water

After leaving the Fishing Bridge area of Yellowstone Sunday morning, we made our way to the Madison area on the west side of the park. Along the way we passed Old Faithful, and just had to stop.

This ended up being probably my least favorite of the sights on our 3+ days in the park. You see, it's pretty much the "Disneyland of Yellowstone": a huge parking lot, many shops, restaurants, and other unidentified buildings, and a long set of bleachers around the south edge of the geyser.

Smoke, Relax, View

>> Wednesday, September 4, 2013 – clouds, panorama, travel

These Yellowstone posts are tiring me out -- so long, so many photos to include. So I thought I'd simplify a bit today and focus on a few unrelated things from Yellowstone.

Starting with the smoke from the Alum fire as seen from Yellowstone Lake. I took several photos of these billowing beauties, and just had to share them.

Roadtrip: leaving TRNP

>> Friday, August 30, 2013 – panorama, travel

Summarizing our trip so far, we left home Monday evening, arrived at Theodore Roosevelt National Park Wednesday early evening, had the bison hike on Thursday, and today's post is about Friday.

This was the morning we left TRNP and headed out to our next destination. Since we had a fairly long day of driving ahead of us, we left as early in the morning as we could without causing stress -- which was around 7:00 (or maybe 8:00? Stupid time zones!)

Rural Missouri

>> Sunday, June 9, 2013 – panorama, travel

We visited one of the newest of the Missouri wineries yesterday.

Edg-Clif Farms and Vineyard, located near Potosi, Missouri. I thought you might like a quick view of the rolling hills of rural Missouri.

What a view!

>> Monday, December 3, 2012 – panorama, winter

On Saturday I took advantage of the warm weather to hang some Christmas lights on the house and to clean the gutters. This requires that I get up on the roof, and when I was finished I sat down and surveyed the yard. Then I realized that I should take some photos, as this is the perfect opportunity to give you a nice bird's-eye view of the entire back garden.

I'm still planning on creating a detailed map of my yard, but for now this is the best look at where everything is -- if you don't already have a good view of it in your mind that is.

How you look at it

>> Monday, September 3, 2012 – bananas, elephant ears, panorama, vines

Today we'll look at one part of my backyard garden. It's the spot closest to the house, and is probably the most visible planting area back here, at least to me. I see it when I look out the windows, when I'm up on the deck, when I come out of the garage and go down to the patio.

In other words, I look at it more than almost any other part of the garden, so I want it to be as pleasing as possible. As I was trying to take photos that gave a good sense of the spot I realized that it really matters how exactly you look at it -- so I'll show you different attempts at this, and you can judge which are most effective.

A look around, July 2012

>> Saturday, July 14, 2012 – panorama

Just a look around at parts of my garden. It's something I need to remind myself to do every once in a while, as it's important to step back look at the big picture. I tend to focus on individual plants for much of the time, I miss seeing how it all fits together.

Plus I like sharing.

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The patio area is pretty mature now, and doesn't need much work anymore:

By "much work" I'm talking about new plants. The maintenance is always there.

click for larger version!

The pond plants are filling in quite nicely. Hopefully I'll get the algae under control in the next couple of weeks, so this view will be less irritating to me.

The elephant ears behind the pond are really gigantic:

Biggest I've ever grown! I wish I hadn't planted my largest "normal" Colocasia esculenta tubers back here, as they're overpowering the smaller but more colorful varieties.

I debated whether or not I should include this view:

This was taken before I added about eight new pots of plants (moved from the driveway) into the area, so it looks a bit sparse to me in this shot. Let's consider it a "before" photo in case I post an updated shot, okay? (Incidentally, it's the "back" view of what is shown in the last two shots of this post.)

The Cleome are doing great of course. I think the extreme heat drained the color from the blooms, as they were primarily white for a while there:

The colors have been coming back since we've cooled off a bit (after this photo was taken). Interesting.

Now a couple of different panoramic views, both taken from the south edge of the back yard:

If you don't click to enlarge these, you're missing out! Maybe even try r-clicking and selecting "open in new window" -- whatever method lets you zoom in and pan around.

Something tells me I'll be labeling some of these images later this winter.

I'm glad I took them when I did, as I'm planning a project this weekend that may change things quite a bit in these last shots. Maybe it won't have as big an impact as I think it might... we'll see.

I hope you enjoy these non-specific looks at my garden!

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Quick look

>> Saturday, June 16, 2012 – panorama

I've got lots of things I want to get done in the garden this morning before the temperature hits 95F, so I thought I'd just post a few of the "survey" photos I take once in a while.

I use these to track the progress of my plants over the year, as well as comparing past years.

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