Capturing the moment

Photography to me is often capturing the moment when it occurs,

being there with the camera at the right time.

Over the last few weeks, I was so fortunate to capture

some of those moments in our garden at different times.

Sometimes it was early in the evening, and other times early in the morning.

It seems like those are the moments to capture a bit of magic in the garden.

 

I showed these before

but one evening I noticed this

 

Guess I caught the flowers at

the time they were closing their petals

for the night but hadn't closed completely yet.

Little stars in the border

but only visable at the right moment

and if you want to notice it

because these little flowers can so easily be overlooked.

 

Love this natural combination of what looks like

the tiniest forget-me-nots and the blue flowers.

Both happy surprises in the garden.

 

No flower here anymore

but if you've been following me for a while,

you will know I love taking pictures of

faded flowers and seed pods as well.

They're all so pretty and elegant if you ask me.

Early one  morning, I noticed this.
Just one Californian poppy, sleeping cap still on.
I had to look close to see what it exactly was.
Thought it funny and cute enough to especially
go back inside for and grab my camera.
Glad I did, never got the chance afterwards
to photograph the actual flower.

 

 And then there was that second surprise poppy. 

 

 

Photographed it from all angles again ;)

 

More Columbine seed pods.

 

There was even the promise of a third surprise poppy

but that didn't come true.

 

The first rain drops were gentle but....

 

I have to admit this is a post I started more than a week ago

when the weather was still great, sunny, not enough rain maybe,

and a lot of watering needed but o how I loved those warm

and sunny days. By now we've gotten more than enough

sky water, more than there normally falls in the whole month of July

and we're not even halfway through this month. No need to say

the last week has changed the garden into what seems like

another world compared to what it looked like when I took

the above pictures. Wind and rain even got to the container garden,

blowing things over and making me work outside in the pouring rain

(it just didn't stop once!) to get it all reorganized and cleaned up again.

Think I'd choose watering over that any day ;)

 

 

So glad I captured these summer moments,

they came and passed so fast

but are now captured to be shared.

Hope you enjoy them,

these little happy surprises.

I'm glad I did.

 

 

 

Marian