Finally, I get to rejoin the celebration of Bloom Day! It’s been a long time since November, but now, there’s plenty going on and more than enough for a post. I can’t resist taking a quick trip back to the beginning of the month, to revisit some of the beauties that have come and gone since early May, starting with fox’s grape (Fritillaria uva-vulpis):
“Hello, good evening and welcome to another edition of ‘Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror’, and later on we’ll be talking to a man who does gardening.” [Monty Python’s Flying Circus, episode 30]
Sadly, there are very few gardening references in Monty Python episodes and movies, but I treasure each one. The bits about shrubbery and recognizing different types of trees from quite a long way away come to mind fairly frequently, but I don’t often have the opportunity to use this one – until this week.
I really hadn’t planned to do a Bloom Day post this month, because I didn’t expect to have anything to share. For the last week or so, Mom and I have been taking advantage of the beautiful weather to work on garden cleanup, and there isn’t a whole lot of pretty left. But when I took a few minutes to walk around and look at the areas we hadn’t attacked yet, I found a few bits of flowers, foliage, and seedheads lingering long enough to make an appearance for the last Hayefield Bloom Day of 2010.
The hardest part of pulling together this month’s Bloom Day post was deciding when to stop taking pictures. The angled autumn light is lovely all day long, and as the cooler temperatures bring out the richest flower and foliage colors, I keep wanting to grab the camera and wander around outdoors. I guess I should be grateful that we had a rainy afternoon to make the computer more tempting than the garden.
My first attempt at this post brought a strong sense of deja vu. Sure enough, when I looked back at last month’s Bloom Day post, I realized that the closeups and combinations that I’d shot for this month were almost identical. Obviously, things hadn’t changed all that much over the last four weeks – at least at first glance. I headed out again with the goal of finding something fresh for this month, and ended up with a number of new things, starting with some colorful closeups.
