Spring Blossoms

Old Saybrook, CT  2020

Fall Colors

Mystic, CT  2019

Summer Flowers

Lakeside Park, Fond du Lac, WI  2019

Fall Colors II

Niantic, CT  2018

Yellow Mums

Niantic, CT  2018

Fountain with Fall Flowers

Middletown, CT  2017

Mums

Middletown, CT  2017

Sunflowers

North Stonington, CT  2017

Bench with Flowers

Stonington Borough CT  2017

Flags and Flowers

New London, CT  2017

Fence with Flowers

New London, CT  2017

Mums

Niantic, CT  2016

Another Pansy

Niantic, CT  2016

Pansies

Niantic, CT  2016

Art Imitating Life

Niantic, CT  2016

Summer Flowers

Newport, RI

I'm sure there are others out there much more knowledgable  than I who can identify these flowers.  I'm a chemist, not at botanist.

Valentine Roses

I'm a couple of days late with these photos.  On Valentine's Day this year, the outdoor temperatures only reached about 10℉, so I did not get out to do any photography, even though the sun was shining brightly.  Instead I stayed inside and practiced doing some flash photography, an area I have yet to master, as can be seen in these photos.

Niantic, CT  2016

Getting my wife roses on Valentine's Day is a rare treat.  I prefer to get other gifts showing my affection rather than overpaying on this one day for roses.  I had a moment of weakness this year.  I hope everyone enjoyed their Valentine's Day.  

Bank St

New London, CT  2015

More Sunflowers

Griswold, CT  2015

Sunflowers for Wishes

I'm a little late posting these pictures and for some of you they might look a little familiar.  Fellow Connecticut Blogger, Jack, who publishes the very fine blog Naples and Hartford in Season published photos from Buttonwood Farms and their Sunflowers for Wishes sales the very day I visited.  I guess great minds think alike.  We've been going to Buttonwood Farms for years, ever since I first moved to Connecticut in 2003.  For two weeks in July, the sunflowers are in bloom and they are sold to the public with all proceeds going to the Make a Wish Foundation.  It truly is an impressive sight to see acres of sunflowers in bloom.

There was a big crowd there when I visited and the lines were very long for taking hay rides through the sunflower fields, and for ice cream.  Buttonwood Farms makes their own ice cream and people come from far and wide, even as far away as Hartford for the ice cream.  There were walking paths through the fields which allowed for up close and personal sunflower pictures.

One thing I noticed as I walked around this field.... no matter what side of the field I was on, the sunflowers always seemed to be facing away from me.  You might see it in some of the photos above.  All the sunflowers were facing to the center of the field.  I thought they always faced the same direction.  

Griswold, CT  2015