Posted on July 26, 2017 in Flowers, Lensbaby, Nature
You know that it’s high time to clean out the car when the Petunias that you bought and forgot about have turned it into a planter!
Posted on July 16, 2017 in Flowers, Lensbaby, Macro, Nature
Summer is in full swing! While I don’t enjoy the heat and humidity, I do love having the opportunity to photograph all of the colorful flowers!
Posted on July 13, 2017 in Flowers, Lensbaby, Nature, Soft Focus, Still Life
A favorite spot to photograph at Peace Valley Lavender Farm is the area where the bunches of cut lavender are hanging to dry. The fragrance of dried lavender can last as long as 15 years. I have a sachet in the car and all I need to do is squeeze it a little and the lavender fragrance fills the air! It’s one of those fragrances that I just can’t get enough of … just like lilacs and honeysuckle!
Posted on July 9, 2017 in Flowers, Landscape, Lensbaby, Nature
What a wonderful spot for relaxing and enjoying the delightful fragrance of lavender! I could stay here allllll day long!
Posted on June 29, 2017 in Flowers, Lensbaby, Macro, Nature, Soft Focus
There were bumble bees galore at the lavender farm. Lavender is one of the bumble bees most favorite flowers to visit. Here is some interesting information from a study done by the University of Sussex in England:
“The tubular flowers of lavender make nectar extraction harder for the shorter-tongued honey bee, which has to jam its head into each flower to get to the nectar, Nick Balfour and fellow researchers at the University of Sussex observed when studying bees visiting an experimental flower garden at the University. Bumblebees spent 1.1-1.4 seconds per lavender flower, as opposed to the slower honey bee’s 3.5 seconds per flower. The length of time needed is crucial because bee foraging is about efficiency. The quicker a bee can visit a flower, the more food it can bring back for its colony. Two seconds faster might not seem much, but multiplied over thousands of flowers the benefit is significant.”
Who knew, right?