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So, there was a brief period in which it looked like I needed to get some pictures of sunflowers for a client. In the end, they handled their own images, but not before I had called around looking for … Continue reading
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This would be the point when I would normally lead off with an anecdote (preferably featuring my mother) then try to work back around into an allusion to the “stop and smell the flowers” cliche without coming right out … Continue reading
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Maybe it is the constant crashing and banging taking place in front of my house as the city repairs our ancient sewer system. Maybe it is that I have had a lot of other work, photographic and otherwise, to … Continue reading
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Between the wind storm and other obligations, I have not taken too many photographs this week. This one is a little blown out in some of the red but, as the post title says, it is better than nothing. … Continue reading
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I, like everyone else in south Louisiana, have been suffering under some pretty intense allergies. But after two days of laying around on daytime and nighttime and all around time anti-histamines, I decided it was time for a long … Continue reading
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I don’t really recall the context that this was said in, but my mother once warned me that, “the wisteria never sleeps, so neither can we.” I imagine that it was in the context of some garden material choice … Continue reading
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Somewhere the seed of a story is germinating in my mind. It has been over a year since I first began entraining the idea of writing a book about the history of heirloom bulbs in the South— their evolutions … Continue reading
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When I first reconstructed the 1890′s Greek-Revival shotgun that I still live in 13 years ago I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t know anything about architecture, less about carpentry and nothing about landscape design. With … Continue reading
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A couple days of rain means a couple of days when I don’t want to take my camera gear outside. Good thing my orchid is coming back into bloom. The first orchid I ever had was a Phalaenopsis like … Continue reading
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“It might be unwise to publicly describe your mother or your boss as giddy, hysterical or irrationally acquisitive but the level of mania I observed between these otherwise sensible ladies as we approached the home of the “bulb-man” bordered … Continue reading
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One of the prettiest sights in south Louisiana in the Spring are all the Japanese Magnolias. This one is located on the ground of Magnolia Mound Plantation. While I was helping my mother in the garden there I remarked on … Continue reading
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I believe these are Paper Whites or Narcissus papyraceus. They certainly smelled like them. Paper whites are a pretty common blooming bulb around Christmas; their sweet, medicine odor always reminds me of holiday parties. If you leave them to their own … Continue reading