Let the Blooms Begin!

Last Friday, I found a couple of wildflowers around my rural Missouri home, that were beginning to bloom! So I grabbed my camera and headed back out to capture them. The first set of images is a Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica), which has only recently emerged from the leaf litter and is beginning to show […]

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Jack-in-the-Pulpits

Today’s post comes from last spring. Towards the end of spring, I was conducting one of my “shortie” woodland wildflower workshops, and was helping one of the students photograph some gorgeous Bluebells. As she patiently worked at moving her tripod around to find the ideal composition, I decided to sit down and let her work […]

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Wildflower Peek-A-Boo

During my woodland walk a few days ago, the Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) wildflowers were playing Peek-A-Boo with me. I noticed that the leaves of the many bluebell plants were hiding many small buds, that could only be seen from a specific angle. Once I saw this, I maneuvered my tripod down close to the ground […]

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