Toto-3

Just for AndiF and Olivia...

You want me to come down there? Well, here I come.


I made it. Satisfied?

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Taken with Nikon CP2500 June 2005. Gooserock says he took the photos and that I held the leash. It's being debated...

Blanc Double de Coubert, old Rugosa rose

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Taken with Nikon CP7600 mid May 2006
This is a bud and a full open bloom of the old Rugosa rose, Blanc Double de Coubert.
It is a lovely heavy blooming climber. Both the Spanish Lavendar and this graceful rose are in the garden of a nearby friend.

Spanish LAVENDAR (name corrected 5-27-06)

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Taken with Nikon CP7600 mid May 2006
Spanish Lavendar (not Heather, thank you ybruti). Colorful, interesting and when you look close, it has a really odd flower...kind of like lavendar that has sprouted feathers. I'm not sure of the condition of the bee. He never did move...

Pink Dogwood

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Taken with Nikon CP2500 early May 2006
Blooms from a Pink Dogwood (Cornus florida "rubra").

Wild Orange "Daisy"

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Taken with Nikon CP2500 early May 2006
I don't know the name of these but they seem to pop up in hard compacted soil.

Panorama Sunset

Panorama Sunset 12-2005
Originally uploaded by puget4.

Another stitch job from two old photos takes with CP2500 in December of 2005

10pm

10pm
Originally uploaded by puget4.

Nikon Coolpix 7600, "night landscape" setting.

Panorama Waterfront #1

Panorama #1
Originally uploaded by puget4.

First try at a panorama using Panorama Maker 3. It contains 5 photos.

Panorama Waterfront #2

Panorama #2
Originally uploaded by puget4.

Second try at a panorama using Panorama Maker 3. 4 photos stitched together. Used "panorama assist" setting on CP (coolpix) 7600.

Rainbow Panorama

Panorama #3
Originally uploaded by puget4.

This is 180 degrees from Sunset Surprise posted Apr 22. Stitched together from 4 photos taken last summer with old CP2500. Roof of our house is barely visible in the middle at the very bottom. This coloration is very accurate.

Madronna tree

Madronna tree
Originally uploaded by puget4.

I love the madronna tree aka arbutus or strawberry tree. This one stands alone against the sky. Mmmmm.....yes. I'm happy.

Nikon 7600

Old Cedar

Old Cedar
Originally uploaded by puget4.

An old leaning swamp cedar tree. And of course sky...

I'm a happy camera camper.

Nikon 7600

My NEW New Camera

Well....I returned my Nikon P2 and purchased a Nikon Coolpix 7600.

Pros and Cons:
Cons: It was a little bit more expensive, has fewer bells and whistles, a smaller LCD monitor, easier to turn on by accident thus wasting batteries.

Pros: It has an eyepiece view finder in addition to the LCD monitor, is more intuitive to use, a MUCH superior macro, and MUCH better overall focus.

I'll keep you posted.

Sedum, Stonecrop, the plant

Sedum, Stonecrop, the plant
Originally uploaded by puget4.

Sedum, the bloom

Sedum, the bloom
Originally uploaded by puget4.

I am much happier with this camera than with the P2. What do you think of this macro image?

Nikon Coolpix P2

NikonP2-10in
Originally uploaded by puget4.

Happy Mother's Day to Puget4 from Gooserock and the Two Totos.

We went shopping today. It's not a D70 (whew, that's a REAL camera!) but it's a big step up from my Nikon CoolPix 2500. Now we have his and hers Nikon cameras.


UPDATE, MAY 17, 2006. The Nikon P2 had to be returned. I exchanged it for a Nikon Coolpix 7600. The P2 had a faulty focus.

Rhododendron, one blossom

Rhododendron, one blossom
Originally uploaded by puget4.

A delicate pink rhododendron with bell shaped single blossoms instead of the heavy clusters of blossoms as on the red one.

Pink Rhododendron

Rhody, pink, center
Originally uploaded by puget4.

Here's another "heart". This from the above blossom

More Faerie houses

House of Balance
Originally uploaded by windwalkert.

House of Balance

Windwalker and MaryJo have added three more faerie houses to their housing options for your garden faeries to live in. I can hardly wait to see their website, how about you?

Click on windwalkert near the picture to go to Flickr to see the rest.

Tiny Faery House

Tiny Faery House.sm
Originally uploaded by windwalkert.

My brother and his wife make these wonderful faery houses. The detail inside them is amazing. I wanted to share it with you all. (Notice the Sweet Woodruff in the background also.)

Windwalker and Mary Jo are artists who create some truly amazing and joyous pieces, jewelry, paintings, needle point, and faery houses. They will have a website up soon but you can write them at windy@whidbey.com

Rhododendron-full bush

Rhododendron-full bush
Originally uploaded by puget4.

This rhody is in our neighborhood. It is bright red and is glorious. The following red rhody close-ups are from this shrub.

Rhody, red, shrub

Rhody, red, shrub
Originally uploaded by puget4.

Some of the upper blossom clusters on this red rhody.

Rhody, red, cluster

Rhody, red, cluster
Originally uploaded by puget4.

A full cluster of blossoms on a red rhody.

Rhody, red, single blossom

Rhody, red, single blossom
Originally uploaded by puget4.

Just one single blossom from the rhody cluster.

Red Rhododendron, heart

Rhody, red, center
Originally uploaded by puget4.

Here is the heart of it all, the very center of the red rhody bloom.

Armeria maritima, Sea Thrift cluster

Armeria maritima, Sea Thrift cluster
Originally uploaded by puget4.

This is part of the clump of Sea Thrift from which I took the photo of the single stem. It's lovely in rock gardens or as a low edging in a border bed.

Armeria maritima, Sea Thrift

Armeria maritima, Sea Thrift single stem
Originally uploaded by puget4.

This is one stem of blossoms from the clump in the next photo. The clump is a grass-like mound of very thin leaves about 8 inches tall.