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

Showing posts with label texture. Show all posts

Showing posts with label texture. Show all posts

Wednesday Vignette: Texture

>> Wednesday, August 24, 2016 – texture

One of the things that gardening and spending more time observing Nature up close has done for me is make me appreciate textures and patterns and colors. Not just those found in the garden, but those found everywhere.

Here are a collection of some that I've found over the past few months that are mainly from places other than the garden. For more Wednesday Vignettes visit Anna at Flutter and Hum -- her vignettes are a lot more meaningful than mine ever are!

Shapes and Patterns

>> Thursday, February 4, 2016 – color, texture

I'm in a shapes and patterns mood today.

So just photos of lines and circles and related from around the garden, all visible from inside the warm house (with a telephoto lens).

Wednesday Vignette: woodpile

>> Wednesday, November 25, 2015 – texture

Anna at Flutter and Hum brings us weekly vignettes, and this week I chose something that sort of illustrated how I feel right now:

My wood pile. It's a project half-started (some of the wood is split), not yet finished (the wood isn't stacked), has been sitting around for a month or more, and there's no real urgency to complete it due to mild weather. It's still quite interesting though.

Winter geometry, patterns

>> Thursday, January 15, 2015 – texture, winter

When there's not much else to look at in the winter garden...

There are always shapes and patterns and textures.

Cut

>> Thursday, April 10, 2014 – texture

Variety.

>> Wednesday, February 12, 2014 – mulch, texture

I learned a little bit about the mulch pile the other day.

Sure you can shell out for high-quality hardwood mulch, a homogeneous mound of oak or other desirable, durable woods. But that seems so boring!

Broken Bad

>> Saturday, October 19, 2013 – texture, travel

Broken bad land that is. As we took our last little exploratory hike the morning we were leaving Badlands National Park, I focused my view on the land itself. Without looking into it, I suppose that although this is very rugged terrain, part of the reason for the "Badlands" label is the ground.

So hard. So cracked. So inhospitable. Also though, so beautiful.

Bacterial mats, fascination!

>> Wednesday, September 11, 2013 – texture, travel

At the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone I certainly enjoyed the beauty of the spring pools themselves, but without the expansive bacterial mats that surround them this place wouldn't be worth seeing.

I spent so much time looking down both here and at Fountain Paint Pot, snapping dozens of photos of the wet, surrounding "ground".

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!

Quiet morning in Yellowstone

>> Saturday, August 31, 2013 – lichen, texture, travel, trees

It's taking me longer to get together the more interesting Yellowstone photos than I thought. (A word of advice: before taking hundreds of irreproducible photos, make sure your lenses and sensor are as clean as possible or you'll be retouching dust specks for hours.)

So I thought I'd give you a quick look at our first Yellowstone campsite: Canyon campground.

Texture

>> Monday, June 17, 2013 – lichen, moss, texture

It rained again this weekend (I'll gladly give up some weekend garden time if this continues throughout the summer!) so I was just poking around with my camera when I heard a few barred owls calling down the street.

I went to try and get a glimpse of them (I didn't) and on the walk back I noticed my neighbor's ash tree has a fantastic covering of moss and lichen, and I couldn't resist taking lots of photos.

Just look, and look again

>> Monday, June 10, 2013 – foliage, macro, texture

I know my goal as a gardener is to create a garden -- a community of plants that works artistically and as a habitat. Viewing it as a whole is important, to ensure that everything is pleasing, and works with its neighbors to create the whole.

Sometimes though I just can't stop focusing on the plants. Seeing them in different ways, from various angles, under different lighting conditions.

The Bucket

>> Thursday, April 4, 2013 – discovery, texture

When I moved into my house over 20 years ago there were two things left in the basement: a very old refrigerator, and a metal paint bucket.

The bucket sat in a corner of the basement for at least 15 years before I came to appreciate the beauty in "well-used" objects like this, and how they can contribute to the garden.

Imagine: bark

>> Friday, March 1, 2013 – texture, trees

One of my favorite things about the garden is tree bark. I love its texture, its color.

I also love the way it hosts mosses, algae, and lichen. It's like a garden itself, in miniature. A landscape all its own.

bark, I like

>> Tuesday, January 29, 2013 – texture, trees

Remember the other weekend when I moved the mulch pile, all 64 wheelbarrow loads of it? As I got to the bottom of the pile, I started hitting a lot of branches, and a few logs that must have been thrown into the truck at the end of the day.

This log is from a tree that I'm not familiar with, unless it's a sycamore. It's beautiful though!

Glass of art

>> Monday, December 24, 2012 – texture

I water the small aloe in my kitchen window quite infrequently and very sparingly, as there are no drainage holes in its glass planter.

Still, an interesting mix of algae and other unidentified organisms have grown in the space between the soil and the glass. Quite colorful and beautiful in the sunlight...

I like it: textures

>> Wednesday, December 5, 2012 – texture

Not much to say today, except that I really like textures -- both in the garden and in the home.

Here's a little look at some of the indoor textures that catch my eye every day.

I look at rocks

>> Monday, November 28, 2011 – stones, texture

I've been looking at rocks quite a bit recently as I finish up my pond project. I love everything about rocks (except hauling them around): their texture, colors, forms.

I especially like looking very closely at them.

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