The Lotus are Blooming!

This season, everything is blooming early. The lotus have popped out 2 weeks early!  I hope they will last for a long time, since I have a Garden Conservancy tour here on August 4th.

The delicate flowers are always soothing to the soul and the leaves undulate gracefully in the breezes.

Other flowers that are blooming now are the Foxgloves and Day lilies.  And of course there are numerous frogs leaping into the pond as I walk by. No scarcity of them here!

Lotus

Frog

Day lily

Frog

Lotus behind a small willow

Day lily

Lotus

Lotus

Fox glove

Foxglove

Flowers on Black on a July evening

I set up black velvet against a trifold support and placed my camera on a tripod in front of this.  Several flowers from the garden were the subjects for the afternoon photo shoot. The sun was low around 6:30 and provided a warm glow to the day lilies, daisies, and petunias.  Here are some macro shots, some without adjustment and others with Photoshop artistic adds.