Want a "Quickie" ? Today 6.17.13

“Quickies”

(All “Quickies” are photos taken and posted the same day)

These photos were taken this morning in the Gardens at Waters East. - - 6.17.13

There was a fast moving storm at mid-morning, after it passed, some really great photos   - - -   A feast for the eyes.

Enjoy

 Looking Southeast

 Bachelor Button

Centaurea Montana

Overhead & Over Lake Michigan

 Peony - Red

 Allium Mt. Everest

Lady's Mantle

Bearded Iris

 Native Phlox

Spiderwort

Storm Clouds over Lake Michigan

And Then - - The Rainbow

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;

no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.

What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

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Want a Quickie? Today

“Quickies”

(All “Quickies” are photos taken and posted the same day)

These photos were taken just today in the Gardens at Waters East. - - - - -   6.13.13

This was a “quick run around the gardens” with emphasis on the ever-changing clouds with a few blooms thrown in for color.  Notice all the wonderful patterns formed by the clouds with the lake below  - - -   A feast for the eyes.

Enjoy

 Looking West

Looking East

Petunia - Pink Wave

 Native Phlox & Clouds

 Chives with Niagara Escarpment

(more on escarpment in past watershed posting #6  July 21, 2012)

 Clouds, Lake & Viburnum Mohican Lantana

 Native Columbine - pink

 Cushion Spurge - with ant

 Clouds & Lake Michigan

Middle Walk

 Pachysandra & Smoke Bush Leaves

 Native Phlox

 Horseradish Blooms

 German Bearded Iris

Lake Michigan in the background

 Lily of the Valley

 Bachelor Button

Centaurea Montana

 Narcissus - Paper White

Clouds - Looking South

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;

no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.

What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden

please do that through this Blog site or with an email to:

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Spring Flowers - Watershed #12

The watershed for Gardens at Waters East covers a wide expanse of land reaching back inland from Lake Michigan.  To fully understand this ecosystem go back into the archives of this Blog and read any of the postings listed as “watershed”: especially the postings for  July 2, 2011 – Facts & Photos and anyone of the others that have been posted such as  Seen and Unseen – Watershed #3 posted on February 3, 2012 or the special one on rock formations titled Niagara Escarpment – Watershed #6 posted on July 21, 2012.

All of these blog postings will give you the proper perspective for viewing the following photos taken on trails in the areas covered in the many Watershed postings.

Enjoy some of the many awesome early Spring flowers found while hiking over the past month.

 Whitefish Dunes Park

Beach Walk

 Trillium

 Hepatica - Blue

 Whitefish Dunes Park

"Old Baldy" Trail

 Wood Violet

Ice Age Trail

 Marsh Marigold

 Niagara Escarpment

Door County

 Dwarf Lake Iris

Very Rare Plant

Endangered Species

found along the rocky escarpment

 Rattlesnake Fern

 Native Geranium

 Wild Strawberry

growing out of the escarpment

 Dunes Trail

Whitefish Dunes Park

 Broad-leaved Toothwort

 Hepatica - White

 Niagara Escarpment

gives you the viewer the size of it at the lake's edge

Bush in Bloom

The Watershed

Gardens at Waters East

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IN YOUR FACE #1

In Your Face!!!

Me, me, me.  Look at me.  No, look at me.  Better yet, skip all those and look at me!  Walking through the Gardens at Waters East, one almost hears this constant refrain.  Every plant wants attention.  Every bloom is screaming – “I’m so beautiful just look at me!”  In many cases they are right.  Take a look at some of the beauties basking in the sun and calling to be the center of your attention. Checkout the detail of some of the garden residents.

False Sunflower

All of these “portraits” were take here in the gardens.  Self centered though they may be, the flowers do make you stop and stare.  They seem to be doing “their thing” just for you.  So why not indulge them for a few moments while walking the paths.

Here then are photos for this posting

 Blue Flax

 Rudbeckia & worm

 Moss Rose

 Balloon Flower & "bug"

 Daffodil

 Tradescantia - Spiderwort

Native Anemone

Aster 

Star Magnolia

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;

no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.

What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden

please do that through this Blog site or with an email to:

www.gardensatwaterseast@Yahoo.com