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Pearly Everlasting – Anaphalis margaritacea

by hankinslawrenceimages | Nov 25, 2009 | Flowers, Wildflowers

This past summer while Bill and I were exploring Acadia National Park in Maine, I spotted a wildflower I’d never seen before. It had clusters of tightly packed white and yellow flowers. I had no idea what it was. I eventually discovered that it was Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), a native plant and member of the aster family. Later in the week, I was able to photograph a lovely group of Pearly Everlasting ath the Wild Gardens of Acadia – a great location for learning about the plants and ecosystems at Acadia National Park.

Here are some of my photos of Pearly Everlasting from Acadia National Park.

A view of the entire group of flowers

A little closer in view that gives a great sense of the texture of the unopened flowers.

And finally two side views of the flowers with different depths of field. I’m still trying to decide which of these two photos I like better.

I really enjoyed photographing the Pearly Everlasting at the Wild Gardens of Acadia. Next summer, I’ll definitely look for more Pearly Everlasting, I’d like to photograph some with the flowers fully open.

Fall Color at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge

by hankinslawrenceimages | Nov 23, 2009 | Photo Locations

One of the great things about Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge is the variety of trees located in the refuge. In the fall, their leaves all change color at different rates, and to different colors. So wehn Ivisited there in late October, I saw everything from green leaves that hadn’t started changing color yet – to lots of trees that had already dropped their leaves. I also found lots of wonderful combinations of leaves to photograph. Here are some of my favorite photos of fall color at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge.

There were many trees with leaves that were a wonderful combination of yellow and red. The top leaves in a group were red – and then the lower leaves were yellow – where the top leaves had partially covered them. I saw some wonderful patterns created by the combination of colors on the same leaves.

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There were some trees where all the leaves were yellow – with created wonderful bright spots in the refuge

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And finally a grouping of three different colored leaves against a tree trunk

Monkshood – Aconitum carmichaelii

by hankinslawrenceimages | Nov 21, 2009 | Flowers

One of my favorite places to photograph at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge is the Bayscape Garden behind the old visitor center, near the Bayview Butterfly Trail. A Bayscape Garden is designed to benefit people, wildlife and the Chesapeake Bay.

On my most recent visit to the Bayscape Garden, I photographed some beautiful monkshood (aconitum carmichaelii) flowers. I loved the deep purple flowers that I photographed. And all you have to do is take one look at the shape of the flowers to know why it is names monkshood. Here are some of my photos of the monkshood at Eastern Neck NWR.

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I only made it to Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge a couple of times this year. Each time, I found wonderful things to photograph. I think I’m going to try to get there more often next year. 🙂

A Walk in my Neighborhood

by hankinslawrenceimages | Nov 11, 2009 | Photo Locations

Yesterday morning, I took a walk in my neighborhood with my camera. I’d noticed that there were lots of trees with wonderfully colored leaves on them – so I decided to head out an photograph some of them. Here are a few of the leaves I photographed.

A few last red leaves on the end of branch

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A fantastic group of red and orange leaves

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Lots of wonderful red leaves

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And finally three photos of the leaves on the same tree. I was fascinated by how many different colors of leaves there were in one area of just one tree.

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Pink Asiatic Lilies

by hankinslawrenceimages | Nov 8, 2009 | Flowers

I was looking back at some of the flower photos I’ve taken this year – and realized that there were several photos of various Asiatic Lilies that I’ve never gotten around to posting. I just love all the colors that these lilies come in. Here are a few of the pink ones I’ve photographed in the past few months.

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