Lupines

Colorful lupines grace a field in Dunbarton, NH, on a late may morning in 2024.

Hyacinth

Hyacinths of various colors were in their full spring glory in April of 2024. IMHO -- this one looks good enough to eat!

Dame's Rocket

An invasive plant called Dames Rocket thrives in my hometown of Pepperell, MA. These plants produce flowers whose petals range in color from white to dark crimson. I captured this image in May of 2021, using a macro lens.

Mountain Bluet

Pickety Place in Mason, NH, has extensive flower garddens and bushes that draw me back every spring. A very kind woman -- who might have been one of the owners -- identified this flower as a Mountain Bluet. (She pronoundced it "blute.") I captured this image in June of 2019, using a macro lens.

Bleeding Hearts and Tulip

The spring of 2019 produced some unusual flower photo opportunities, as many varieties that usually bloom at different times all produced flowers late in the season. The gardeners at Pickety Place in Mason, NH, -- where I captured this image -- remarked that they had never before seen certain flowers that normally bloom in April, appearing in June.

Day Lilly

I captured this image in July of 2017 while trying out a new camera at my brother's homw in Amherst, MA.

Lupines

I photographed these lupines in a garden in West Groton, MA, in May of 2022.

Isaiah 58:9

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
And your righteousness shall go before you;
The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’"

Lady Slipper

Several Lady Slippers were in bloom near the Nashua River in my hometown of Pepperell, MA, in April of 2020 when I captured this image. I was in the area hoping to photograph bald eagles who were nesting in the area. However, I quickly switched to a macro lens when my girlfriend spotted these flowers.

Lupines

These lupines were blooming in a neighbor's garden when I captured this image in June of 2021.

Solitaire

An invasive plant called Lavender Bladderwort thrives in a shallow beaver pond in Mason, NH. I return there every summer to photograph the pond as its surface turns pink with thousands of tiny Bladderwort blossoms. In July of 2020 I managed to isolate a single blossom for this image.

Lupines by the River - 1

Local gardeners tend Lupines -- and other flowers -- near the banks of the Squannacook River in West Groton, MA. I captured this image in June of 2020.

Water Lily

A lone water lily blooms in a shallow beaver pond in Deering, NH. I captured this image in the summer of 2019.

Red and White

Local gardeners tend flowers in the General Field Conservation Area of Groton, MA. I captured this image in the late spring of 2020, using a macro lens. I'm not really a flower guy, and consequently don't know what variety this is. However, I would like to know. Tthere were many of these in the fields, in various colors.

Lupines by the River - 2

Local gardeners tend Lupines -- and other flowers -- near the banks of the Squannacook River in West Groton, MA. I captured this image in June of 2020.

Bee-hold the Bee!

A honeybee was busy pollinating at Pickety Place in Mason, NH, when I captured this image in June of 2019. I used a macro lens.

Lupines on a Hillside

Multicolored Lupines blossom on a hillside in Dunbarton, NH. (May, 2023)