Before the Snow

Early Winter – before the Snow

 

Here are twenty-five (25)  close-up photos of a few plants in the Gardens at Waters East taken just days before any snow had fallen. In another posting, once it snows, I will take a few more photos, showing close-ups of the snow on some of the same plants. 

Whitespire Birch

 

Enjoy the details in the plants, amazing even after the blooms have gone.

 

Whitespire Birch 

Sedum Autumn Joy

Milkweed

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Magnolia bud

Aster

Siberian Iris

Columbine

Siberian Iris

Lichen

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Goldenrod

Queen Anne

White Aster

Hydrangea

Baptisia Australis 

Cone Flower 

Allium

Tithonia

A. Goyette Fern

Cone Flower

Euonymus

Sedum - Autumn Joy

 

Barbary - Golden Nugget

 

 

 

Video at Gardens at Waters East

 

Here is a video taken this morning January 14th. looking at Lake Michigan from the Gardens at Waters East.  It is really a cold morning - 5 F, and windy.

BLOG SHOTS # 160

 Each month Gardens at Waters East (GAWE) will post a few never before seen photos of “garden life” called - - BLOG SHOTS.  Here are the photos for this posting.  Let's start 2024 by remembering and celebrating a few of the garden gems from this past season. There are hundreds more - but this is enough!

 

moments in the garden - - enjoy

 

 

Baby bunny in a flower pot

Hybridized Daylily #

Blade

Magnolia

Always has a smile when I walk by.

Hybridized Daylily # letter A

Early Crocus

 

Daisy

 

 

 

 

Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design plus the special “Principle of Design” used throughout Gardens at Waters East, check out the archive postings for November 14 – 24, 2010 and May 2, 2011.

 

 

NOTE:   All photos use in this posting were taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East

unless otherwise marked.

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.

 

BLOG SHOTS #159

 Each month Gardens at Waters East (GAWE) will post a few never before seen photos of “garden life” called - - BLOG SHOTS.

 Here are the photos for this posting.

 

False Sunflower

moments in the garden

looking back at recent summers - - enjoy

Phlox

A storm coming

sunrise over Lake Michigan

at the gardens

interesting shadow

 

Spirea Fritsch

Siberian Iris

Monarch Butterflies

on their annual stop-over here in the gardens

on their way to Mexico

Goat's Beard

Ghost Spider

on Orange Tithonia

Mexican Torch

Delphinium

 

 

 

 

Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design plus the special “Golden Principle of Design” used throughout Gardens at Waters East, check out the archive postings for November 14 – 24, 2010 and May 2, 2011.

 

 

NOTE:   All photos use in this posting were taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East

unless otherwise marked.

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.

 

Hunting Season - it is NOW

This week is gun deer hunting week in Wisconsin.  The hunting season has a long history here, for many people it is a family tradition.   There are more than 600,000 hunters in the woods and forest around this stare this week for the nine-day hunting season.

Lots of deer and lots of hunters.

HUMM - Looking in my office window while I am looking out! 

 

I will say – I don’t have to go far to find them.  Just looking out my windows – there they are!

 

At all times of the year

All photos taken on the property of 

Gardens at Waters East

Some little one is hungry!

Hiding on the edge of a garden path

The garden files here are loaded with pictures of deer “being at home” in

The Gardens at Waters East.

 

 

Footprints of deer on StoneWater Beach

at the Gardens at Waters East

 

Enjoying a "snack" from the Formal Garden.

Photo taken through the Sunroom window.

This Buck knows he is being hunted!

 

This photo was an accident - wrong setting.

Yet I like it.

My "ghost" deer in the garden.