Flora

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When I’m lucky, I get more than a few images out of a place I visit. Back in June, I visited the Kenilworth Aquatic Garden (seen here and here) but I don’t feel right blogging all the images all at the same time. I feel like you all may get bored by seeing similar images all within a few days of each other. What do you think? So I decided I could at least spread them out a bit and keep it exciting. Exciting right?!?

These water lilies only bloom once a year. The same thing goes with McKee-Besher’s sunflower field. I need to learn to visit these places more than once during their peak. I want to keep going and really study these flowers and get the perfect sky. I say that I need to learn and it may be kinda obvious to others, but for some reason, I feel like once is enough. I think this is because I do that with a lot of the DC monuments.

Did you notice the bee? I think thats my favorite part of the image.

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This morning I woke up early and headed out to Southern Maryland for a sunflower field! How exciting. I’ve been planning this trip for so long and this week is finally the peak of the flowers. When I actaully got there, I was so excited, but kinda surprised how short it was, it went up to my waist. I thought it would be taller than me.

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Finally, the water lilies have bloomed. I’ve been waiting for this day for two months now and I can’t believe how tall they are. They were probably up to my elbow. I always thought water lilies were just above the water surface. Is that just a different breed?

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Thank you so much to Meg from my Facebook group who was able to identify this beautiful flower for me.

This was taken at the US Botanical garden in DC. When I first saw these blooms I was stunned. I never saw anything like this and as you can see in my other image of the flower, you can actually see water flowing out of it. How awesome is that?

I would really like to go back soon to take more shots of these flowers. I loved it there and I know I have so much more to see there.

Did you see my vlog at the Botanical Gardens?

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Last week I spent some time at the US Botanical Gardens in DC. It was my first time there and I was blown away by the orchid room. There were so many different kinds and all of them were so gorgeous. Start expecting some more macro, flower images.

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