I've taken quite a few photos of Irises - because I have "found" them in the most amazing places.
There seemed to be quite a few flowering in China in spring, and also in South Korea, where I saw masses of them in flower making a magic scene.
Sadly I've not seen them in such numbers here in Australia, though I am sure that in New South Wales, or Victoria there are huge fields of them - I just haven't seen them.
I purchased a bunch (5 stems) today, some of them were partly opened like this one, but others were still in bud and surely will open over the next few days.
As I have a new Canon SLR Camera, I've been taking lots of photos - and thought this one was good. Enjoy.
Simple, pretty daisies make a great picture in a garden. When I visit Adelaide, there are often gardens with many varieties and colours of daisies. I found these in a garden in one of my walks around Oalklands when I was there in July 2009. The roses, camellias and daisies made a great picture in the gardens in and around the city and suburbs.
I love to see irises, and they are in the flower shops at the moment. That' not the reason for posting this, but I've been going through and transferring my photos to my new program Memory Manager, and came across this photo.
I don't recall that I have posted it here before, and quite lazily I haven't checked either.
It was at a pond at the entrance to an amazing mountain in China at a place called Tonglu.
Along with a group of students we climbed up the inside of a mountain - there were stone steps and we kept going up in this amazing wonderland of stone, water (a huge waterfall was at the top of the mountain) so it was wet, slippery, and cold.
When we reached the part where the steps were surrounded by a cage and the steps went up vertically, my friend and I baulked. We were both over 60 years of age, and that surely would have punished our backs, and legs.
We were escorted back down another route. Luckily.
