08/24/26

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  My Stella D'oro Lilies have been in bloom recently.  I captured one of them up close.  These are perennial flowers that are very reliable bloomers with very little care.

 

8/03/26

 Happy Monday and happy new week.  My yellow Lilies are blooming.  I find them lovely and make for a nice start to the week.

 

01/16/26

 It's Friday, TGIF!  Friday's Are Bokehlicious and I have a very lovely bubbly bokeh picture for today.  This is an image of my neighbor's Lily in bloom from this past June as well as yesterday's image.

07/21/25

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  Time is flying by.  Sigh  I was given a Stargazer Lily by a friend who has since passed and it makes me think of her when it blooms.  There was only one bloom this year for some reason but it was a gorgeous one. 

07/14/25

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  My neighbor's Lilies were putting on a very nice show this year.  She encouraged me to photograph them and I was happy to oblige.  😁

06/09/25

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  My water Lilys have just about finished for the year.  They were quite lovely while blooming and gave a nice pop of color to the pond.  

09/02/24

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  I shared my white water Lily a while back.  My pink one has been blooming recently and produced this very nice bloom.

9/12/22

 Happy Monday and new week!  These flowers are called Surprise Lilies and this group was a surprise to me.  It was a beautiful bouquet of them in a spot I was not expecting to see any at all, much less a group of them.  They are lovely while blooming but they are all done now.  They have a nice smell while blooming as well.

8/26/22

 It's Friday, TGIF!  The Surprise Lilies are up and blooming for the last couple weeks.  I captured this group with some lovely lighting and bokeh and I am sharing this image today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!

8/19/22

 Woohoo, it's Friday, TGIF!  Friday's Are Bokehlicious so today's bokeh filled image is this one that I took of a group of my Surprise Lily blooms this past week.

7/18/22

 Happy Monday!  Wow, July is going so fast and soon summer will be over.  My water Lilies are blooming well this year.  This is a bloom from my pink one in my small backyard pond.  It looked so perfect it almost seemed to be fake.

7/15/22

 It's Friday, TGIF!  Friday's Are Bokehlicious so I have chosen this photo for today.  My red Lily by the Gazebo pond was flowering quite well recently.  I took a photo of a large group of them and loved the bubbly bokeh to the right especially.

12/13/21

 Happy Monday.  Today's image is one I captured of one of my surprise Lilies in bloom.  They are also known by other names.  Their leaves come up in early spring and then die off.  In late summer the flower stalk pops up and they bloom.  They have a strong smell and attract butterflies and moths.

10/15/21

 It's Friday!  TGIF!  My Toad Lily is blooming.  I love this plant, very unique and photogenic I think.  I got this image of it last week and love the bubbly bokeh in it.  Of course I had to share it today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!  These are in the Lily Family and grow best in shade.  I have them on the east side of my house.  They have orchid like blossoms.

10/11/21

 My yellow water Lily has been blooming all summer.  I captured this image one afternoon when the water was rather still due to not much wind for once.  

1/25/21

 I am looking forward to flowers blooming again.  As I write this, the forecast is 100% chance of a wintery mix for today.  We shall see as we have not really had a real winter yet.  Anyway, my image for today is of a lovely Stargazer Lily that was given to me by my friend for my birthday a couple of years ago.  I love it's lovely color.

1/11/21

 I love Water Lilies.  My large pond had a yellow one in it that emerged after pulling out a bunch of Cattails around it.  This past year I put this one from my small pond in it and it seemed to thrive fairly well.  It bloomed several times during the summer and produced some really large pads.  I took this shot of it shortly after a rain.

12/14/20

 I love my Toad Lilies, they are so unique looking.  Each year the plant gets larger and produces more blooms.  This year several blooms were frozen out by the early frost but I did manage to capture several before that.  This is a 3 image focus stack of a couple of them open.

11/24/20

 I knew I had an even closer photo of a frog buddy on a Lily pad.  This one even has the bonus of the flower.  This guy is one of my Bullfrogs but a smaller one than some of them.

11/16/20

 My large pond had a nice surprise in it after I had had cleaned out numerous Cattails, this yellow Water Lily plant.  It has been blooming quite a lot now that it is more free of the Cattails.  This is one of the images I got of it late this past summer.  With the cold weather, the Lilies are all done blooming and we have to wait until next summer for sights like this.