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Posts from the ‘garden’ category

Greenfield

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #296 is ‘abstracts’.

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Garden

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2024

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Mother Duck

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

To our surprise we found this duck sitting on a nest, hidden in the grasses of our front garden. Finally ten little chicks came out.

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Thinking in the Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

Winter rain and a bronze statue.

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Growing Up

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2024

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Growing Up Magnolia 2

I started documenting the Magnolia, taking a photo a day from the kitchen window. Here is the second gallery.

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Growing Up Magnolia

I started documenting the Magnolia, taking a photo a day from the kitchen window. Here is a first gallery.

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2024

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Magnolia

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – January 2024

After dropping its leaves the Magnolia immediately prepares to grow out again in Spring, I always wonder where they get their weather information.

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Magnolia Triple

The Magnolia is in front of the house, outside the kitchen window. Lens Artists Photo Challenge #288 is ‘window shopping’. It is a beautiful view to see it daily taking small steps into Spring.

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Tubular Bells

England, Walmer – December 2024

The week towards Christmas there was a beautiful light event in the grounds of Walmer Castle, with a lighted installation that made sounds like tubular bells. A visit in the early evening for LAPC #284 ‘day&night’.

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Nobody Can Wait Forever

England, Walmer – December 2023

Old garden furniture, showing the effects of wind and weather for LAPC # 283 ‘dramatic’.

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Grass

Grass as it can be.

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Light Flow

Grass as it can be.

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Rain and Shine

A Magnolia tree. Autumn is a time of rapid changes. It can be light and sunny with wonderful colors on display, or grim and dim in rain. Both have its unique beauty in my humble opinion.

The lens artists photo challenge #278 is ‘unique’.

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Garden in Autumn 8

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenger #274 is ‘asymmetry’.

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Garden in Autumn 7

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenger #274 is ‘asymmetry’.

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Garden in Autumn 6

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenger #274 is ‘asymmetry’.

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Garden in Autumn 5

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- November 2023

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Garden in Autumn 4

The Netherworld, Oegstgeest – November 2023

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Garden in Autumn 3

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

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Asymmetry Autumn

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – November 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenger #274 is ‘asymmetry’.

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Garden in Autumn 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

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Garden

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

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Contrast

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – October 2023

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271 is ‘contrasts’.

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And they were all yellow

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2023

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Water Drops

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2023

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Bye Bye Summer

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – September 2023

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Red Leaves with Raindrops

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – August 2023

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Web

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- July 2023

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Wet

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- June 2023

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Summer Storm Behind Glass

On July 5th a storm created havoc, lots of rain and fallen trees.

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Orange

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High Key Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – June 2023

This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is ‘Simplicity Photography’.

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Front Garden

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest- June 2023

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Another Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest -May 2023

A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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Rose

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest -May 2023

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Wisteria Thinker

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

Lens Artists Photograph Challenge #253 is ‘Fragments’. Fragmented thoughts under a canape of flowers.

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Water feature

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Wisteria 2

This year the wisteria was flowering like never before, and the smell and view was so enjoyable. Now it is over its peak, lucklily we still have the photos and memories.

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Rain

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023

April was wet, and that’s probably why the garden is bursting in flowers and growth.

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Wisteria

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – May 2023

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Apple Blossom

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 2023

One of my most loved moments is the sight of apple blossoms in Spring. This was early Apri.

The LAPC theme #248 is ‘mood’.

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Magnolia 2

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. The Magnolia slowly opens up, with in the background a passing bicycle to add some Dutch flavour to the photo :-).

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Magnolia

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. The Magnolia slowly opens up.

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Spring Snow

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #241 is Spring. March still delivers snow from time to time.

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Spring

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2023

Spring is here, the garden awakes slowly.

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Polesden Lacey

England, Great Bookham – December 2022

The Lens Artists Photo Challenge #233 is ‘a one lense walk‘. At the end of 2022 we visited Polesden Lacey, a now National Trust estate.

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Grass

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2022

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Moon

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2022

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