Tuesday, April 18, 2006

H is For Hyacinth! (or is it hiacynth?)

HisForHyacinthGo ahead and click on it to make it bigger. I'll wait.

While I was out in the garden, crawling around pointing my camera at the ground, muttering to myself, and occasionally yelling at the kids to get out of the light, I heard my name being called from my backyard neighbor. The designer of that pattern (you did click the link, didn't you?) is a friend of my neighbor. That designer offered a knitting machine she doesn't want to move to members of our local knitting group and I was the first one to answer yes. So, tonight while I was crawling around with my possessed camera, she came to deliver it! How exciting. It's much much heavier than either of the knitting machines I already own. I'm hoping it will be a more friendly than my oldest one, which is probably from the late '70s. I'm not sure of the vintage of this one, but I think certainly no older.grapehyacinth1

While I was at it, I took a few other photos in the garden. The lilac leaf buds are opening. There's a grape hyacinth and a little teeny blue flower I don't know the name of. It grows among the ferns. I was looking for fiddleheads when I found it.
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Edited to add
For the Record, my camera is an Olympus Camedia C-5060 Widezoom, 5.1 megapixels. I'm quite happy and would recommend it to anyone wanting to step up from point and shoot, but not ready to spend the money for a true digital SLR and 8 megapixels.

10 comments:

Bezzie said...

That's cosmic. I was taking my lunchtime walk today around the neighborhood behind the office, and I saw some daffodils and hyacinths growing in someones yard. I thought to myself, darn, that would have made a great H! But then I thought, nah, I could never make them look as good as Elizabeth does!!!

Jerry & Maxy said...

Ooooooh. Your flowers are further along than ours...crisp, captivating pics.

cpurl17 said...

You must have one gorgeous garden! Your photography is wonderful.

Terby said...

I haven't seen any flowers yet.

I wondered who took the machine. Now I know.

Wendy said...

Gorgeous pics--have you mentioned what kind of a camera you have and I missed it?

Jennifer said...

Beautiful images. Thanks for sharing.

Anonymous said...

I think the one you found in the ferns is a squill. My father has a lot of those in his garden. They're pretty! (As are all of your other pictures!)

Carolyn said...

What beautiful photos - as always!

Helen said...

BEAUTIFUL pics!! yup, it's the first spelling. brava!

so impressed...

Jenny said...

Gorgeous photos again!