A couple of commencement addresses:
I’m trying to convince myself that I can get along perfectly well with an extension tube and I don’t really need a macro lens. Well, maybe.
Category: Photo gallery
Wildlife
I made another trip to the botanical garden this morning, where I surprised an egret in the algae pond.
The commonest rose in cultivation
The hybrid wichuriana “Dr. Huey” is the most commonly-used rootstock for propagation of roses by bud grafting. When gardeners are careless about removing suckers, the understock will take over. The result is a brilliant but brief display of bright red blossoms at the beginning of the rose season. This example was blooming in a Wichita garden in mid-May, but you can find them everywhere grafted roses are grown.
Snapshot
Second rose of the year …
Celt and squid
I’ve got the rest of my Figments & Filaments pictures up. They’re all here. Squid Girl, above, was the only anime cosplayer I spotted.
Now back to making silly noises.
More people in funny clothes
The first batch of pictures from the weekend are up at my Flickr site. The event was “Figments & Filaments,” a costuming convention debuting this year at a hotel in Independence, Missouri. It was a small, friendly event, about equal parts SCA and steampunk. Although I brought a cotehardie with me, I stayed in civvies and just took a lot of pictures.
Red and black
Another snapshot from the weekend.
The Big Bad Woof
I just spent a few days with strange people. There will be more pictures soon.
Hanami 2014
The only Japanese cherry left in Wichita that I know of was at the height of its bloom today.
Barely spring
Spring is running about three weeks late this year. There still is not a lot of color at the botanical garden, but I found a bit more yesterday than on my previous visit, including the very first blossoms on the last remaining Japanese cherry tree.
If you’re heading to Japan in the near future, here’s the blossom forecast.
Sprung
For a while yesterday it seemed that spring had finally arrived, with temperatures around 70°F. There even were thunderstorms in the later afternoon and evening, with hail. All that was missing was the tornado warning. It couldn’t last, of course. It’s back to winter this morning, with north winds and temperatures down in the lower 30°s.
While it was pleasant out yesterday, I made a trip to the botanical garden with my toy camera. Very little was in bloom, but I did find some color.
Enough already
Fluffy white stuff
We got about four inches of snow last night. I snapped a few pictures at a nearby steel company this morning. It’s possible that some of it will still be on the ground Wednesday.
Fog, with ducks
On the way to work this morning.
