I visited Sydney's Chinese garden recently. As it's in winter, trees lost a lot of leaves. This one is from the end of autumn. Full of leaves and sun coming through.

Chinese Garden of Friendship - Darling Harbour, Sydney NSW

Walking path

This was a super place to have a lovely,

relaxing walk in the evening. :-))

Just a little fun this morning, HSS!

Sadness can not blow away the spring....... I will never be cheerful again as long as Russia wages this heinous war against the people of Ukraine.

that satisfy my sense of beauty :-)

Jo Ann Callis

HMM!!

tulips, brookside gardens, wheaton, maryland

Spring in Bloom. HBM

Have a great week.

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A pretty corner of the centre bed in our garden.

久しぶりに外苑さんに撮影しにきてみた。

Visit this location at The Outer Garden in Second Life

Bleeding Hearts blossoms grace a trail's edge in this image captured a few years ago at Chicago Botanic Garden.

Flickr friends, things have gotten busy in my life at the moment, so I'll be off and on here a bit more than usual for a while as I work to get things buttoned down.

Butterfly captured at the Butterfly Pavilion at Albuquerque Botanical Gardens.

take it out of several books then it is research :-)

Quoted by Ralph Foss, 1932

rose, little theater roe garden, raleigh, north carolina

Relaxing after working in the gardens here for about 3-4 days straight. I’m worn out, but the “Colors of May” just about make up for it. Enjoy your Spring season wherever you are. Stay safe. Be kind to everyone you meet today👍

Stocks used:

10 different photos

a colorful conversation

Castle Drogo gardens

can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings :-)

Ralph Blum

narcissus, duke gardens

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the birds are a garden timer as they know when to eat the flowers. A hummer and another song bird in this image. Sorry not so sharp.

A hibiscus and a rose sit gently in the late afternoon light.

Post in ON1. Texture and effects created in Impresso Pro.

The last year of operation for this beautiful garden. Chilliwack, BC Canada. Closed in 2013.

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Wysteria hanging from the walls in the gardens at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, England.

A small white butterfly on an osteospermum flower from my garden

Nishinomaru Garden, Wakayama Castle, Wakayama Perfecture, Japan.

You can see the reflection of Wakayama Castle in the bottom of this photo.

Shooting through two home made filters ( a sheet of screening and a piece of thick plate glass from a cocktail table, allowing the light to run across it) and some post processing to emulate a salt paper calotype of the 1840's.

I am quite enamored by the photography of the nineteenth century. The photographers brought an unpretentious sense of poetics to their work.

Happy Birthday Sandy!

I hope your birthday be as special as you are.

Another rose garden shot for you my dear friends!!!

Enjoy your weekend! Cheers!!!

seen on our way through Devon - whenever you have a chance try to visit it...

the two singing birds appear in the same colors as the rhododendrons nearby...

Nature and Art in perfect symbiosis - the garden serves as an exhibition of several artists and further on it serves as a place for artistic competition - they invite special artists and the visitors vote for the "artist of the year"

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Salters' Gardens in Watford was built in 1863, having moved from its original site in the City of London, and is currently leased to Home Group housing association. The Salters' Company retains nomination rights over 12 of the dwellings, and these residents are considered part of the Salters' family.

Atlanta Botanical Garden

These beautiful Chinese Gardens were a gift to Australia.

Designed in 1988 by landscape architects and gardeners from Sydney's sister city, Guangzhou, the Chinese Garden of Friendship follows the Taoist principles ...

Darling Harbour - Sydney - Australia.

Texture thanks to iPiccy.

This photo was just waiting to be taken as I walked through the entrance.

Best viewed large.

Botanical garden

A high-class 'back garden' at Hodges Barn manor: this is what the owners see from the back of the house: steps with a small statue of a lion, flowers, a lawn, topiary (the bush cut in a special shape) and trees.

Daffodils photographed at Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa.

Developed with Darktable 3.6.0.

Smile on Saturday - Creepy Creatures

The rain stopped a bit so I wandered around my garden with the Lensbaby Edge50... a lens I don't really have luck with... but I am determined to try it again....

This lens definitely has magical powers that can transform a very ordinary image into something different... it is a manual tilt lens and the more you tilt or adjust the aperture, you will get a different slice of focus.

Hopefully when my garden comes to life, I'll get better shots...

HMM - Garden Macro

Something a lot different from my previous artwork of yesterday as I'm trying not to get into too much of an artistic rut! (although you'd never think so, judging by the number of mannequin artworks I often upload!! :-) Haven't a clue what style my next one will be! :-)

Dedicated to Richard Warner (Visionheart) whose birthday was on 17 September. You can check out his cool photostream here:

www.flickr.com/photos/visionheart/

TT 150 Kreative People group

Thanks to skagitrenee for the source image which you can see in the first comment box below or here: flic.kr/p/LgUgNv