After I’d packed and gotten ready to go to the airport Saturday, Zoe and I decided to go for a walk around the block rather than just sitting around waiting. It didn’t take long for me to decide that I wanted to take my camera, even though I’d already packed the 400mm lens. So, I ran back to the house and got my camera with the wide angle lens, perfect for taking pictures of flowers.
Zoe wanted me to take a picture of the flowers in their front yard, and they were certainly beautiful enough to deserve some attention:
The flower that had really grabbed my attention, though, was this iris:
And as long as I was taking pictures of people’s flowers I couldn’t resist taking a photo of this Bird of Paradise, a very popular plant in Tyson’s neighborhood:
While taking flower pictures, I thought I saw a small hummingbird, but it turned out to be a hummingbird moth, an insect I’ve never seen before. Sure wish I’d had my 400 mm lens instead of a wide-angle lens.
Great pictures as always! Thanks for sharing your trip to California on your blog!
Wonderful flower pictures
I like the one with the bee buzzing near it!
Now that’s a serious moth. kjm
I love the iris.
On another note, I probably missed reading your post about the changes you made to your blog and I’m wondering what happened to all those wonderful links you had in your side bar to posts you had written about various poets and their poetry.
Oops! I must have been very tired when I was looking for them here last night. Now that I look again, finding them is child’s play.