04/18/24

 Today's photo is one that I took almost a year ago now on a visit to the Overland Park Arboretum.  They have these beautiful Allium flowers that grow beside a pond there.  I admired them so much I have planted some at home which are beginning to come up and I look forward to having them closer.  On this particular visit, I got lucky because there were butterflies around that day and I got lucky and captured a Red Admiral butterfly flying towards a group of blooms.

01/04/24

 Today's image is one I was able to get on a visit last year to the Overland Park Arboretum.  The Arboretum has several different types of Peony flowers and as I was photographing this variety I was photo-bombed by this honeybee.  😁

7/4/23

 Happy Independence Day to those of you in the US!  I don't have any current firework photos, however, I find these flowers to be like nature's fireworks.  These are Alliums, they are in the Onion family.  I found and photographed these at the Overland Park Arboretum this spring.

6/18/23

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog.  This is another image of the garden railway at the Overland Park Arboretum.  They had a couple of nice waterfalls that made for nice photos of the steam train passing by them.  This locomotive is a tank style.  Tank style engines carry their water over the boiler and their fuel in a bunker on the back.

5/21/23

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  The Overland Park Arboretum has a very neat Garden Railway display with several high trestles and old time KC displays.  I captured their steam Tank engine as it passed over one of the bridges in front of one of the 2 large waterfalls.  A tank engine carries it's water over the boiler in the tank and has a bunker for coal on the back and so usually does not have or need a tender.

5/19/23

 It's Friday, TGIF!  Today's image is one I took recently on a trip to the Overland Park Arboretum.  I love these flowers and need to plant some bulbs this fall of them.  This one was being visited by several insects.  It's a large Allium, I do have some miniature ones.  I chose this image for the lovely bokeh because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!

4/10/18

I took this image last spring at the Overland Park Arboretum.  It had such beautiful color in spring.  I am not sure what type but I think it is a red Japanese Maple.  It reminded of flames.

6/5/17

When I went to the Overland Park Arboretum, I was able to view many varieties of Iris that were in bloom at the time.  It was very interesting to see all the different types there are.  These that I took a macro image of are similar to Blue Flag Iris, which have more narrow petals.  Blue Flag are may favorite and the color of this one is a lot like it.

5/23/17

I was at the Overland Park Arboretum in Kansas a couple of weekends ago.  It was the second time I had visited there.  It's a beautiful place with lovely places to walk with many varied plants, flowers and trees.  The large Allium flowers, part of the Onion Family, were in bloom and I captured them in front of one of the waterfall features.  

5/12/17

Quite the beautiful day today, I wish it would stay like this for a while and not get hot like it's supposed to.  Last Saturday, which was another beautiful day, I was at the Overland Park Arboretum.  They had several varieties of Peony flowers in bloom.  This is one that I liked a lot.  I have a white one in my garden but it is different than this one, mine is more of a ball shaped type.  It's been a good year for Peonies, I have the most amount of blooms ever.  It smells wonderful.

5/10/17

I was at the Overland Park Arboretum this past Saturday.  It's a beautiful place to visit and walk around with all the flowers and trees.  There is a large pond there and some turtles were hanging out by the shore.  People were feeding bread to the fish and one turtle seemed to be enjoying it as well.  I think most of them were looking for other food.  I was able to get a good shot of this guy that showed off his colors well.  I believe this is a Western Painted Turtle.