Garden of Delights

Today's post will be mostly a visual one (whew...!). With continuing health complications, even on my good days I usually can't go far or for very long. So this has forced me to spend more time in the area's lovely public gardens. This is a collection of recent images from Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, MD and Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, VA. Note that most of these images were taken just after or during rain. The water droplets were added by nature, not by spray bottle.

Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) at Green Spring Gardens

Brookside Rose Garden (var. "Opening Night")

A peony-like rose variety from the Brookside Rose Garden

A yellow "red hot poker" (Kniphofia sp.) at Green Spring Gardens

Brookside Rose Garden (var. "Opening Night")

Taken through the fountain in the Brookside Rose Garden, looking towards the trellises

Another love-in-a-mist from Green Spring Gardens

Brookside Rose Garden (var. "Opening Night")

Brookside Rose Garden

Again through the fountain in the middle of the rose garden, focused on the water, small aperture, slow shutter speed

Brookside Rose Garden (var. "Opening Night")

Brookside Rose Garden