A few of the bloomers in and around the farmyard in late June.
It's been very hot lately, and humid -- so twice daily watering is not uncommon.
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| Baby's Breath. |
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| Coreopsis. |
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| Cosmos. |
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| Poppy. |
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| Hollyhock. |
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| Asiatic Lily. |
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| Clasping Coneflower. |
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| Moss Rose. |
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| Day Lily. |
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| Nasturtium. |
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| Peppermint Zinnia. |
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| Lavender. |
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| Sunflower. |
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These photographs were taken about an hour before sunset with my 50 mm lens on auto with camera exposure increased +0.7 to allow more light. Photos were shot in RAW mode.
The following settings were tweaked in Picmonkey:
Crop, Exposure, Sharpen, Clarity;
These filters were applied in Picmonkey:
HDR and Daguerreotype at 80% fade;
Barb Texture applied in Pixlr @ 100% Overlay,
with texture erased from main flower bloom.
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Sharing with Flowers for Leontien, Thursday Favorite Things.
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Welcome to another Rural Thursday Blog Hop.
Rural Thursday is a Weekly Blog Hop where participants can share information and photos about what's currently happening in and around their rural/country/farm home.
Here's how you can join in:
1. Publish a blog post about
- general information describing what's happening in your country/rural/farm life,
or a post relating to a rural-themed subject that will benefit all Rural Thursday readers and participants,
such as
- farming,
- rural-themed photography,
- recipes,
- homesteading tips,
- critters and pets,
- DIY projects,
- rural-themed giveaways
- anything and everything that embraces living the simple life.
2. Please make sure to add the Rural Thursday button to your blog post and link back here.
3. Please link to your actual post and not your home page.
4. If you don't have a blog, you are welcome to leave a comment below our post regarding what special things are happening in your rural world.
3. Please link to your actual post and not your home page.
4. If you don't have a blog, you are welcome to leave a comment below our post regarding what special things are happening in your rural world.
Your hosts for Rural Thursday are Nancy @ A Rural Journal and Lisa @ Two Bears Farm.
Have questions? Please feel free to contact Nancy or Lisa.
Thank you for visiting!
Good Morning Nancy, Such beautiful photos and I love the editing you've done. I love the hanging mug with the plant sticking out. Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteEva
That's a lot of different flowers you must have close by!
ReplyDeletea lovely variety!
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Hello Nancy. Incredibly beautiful pictures you show. I've put links in from both my blogs, this time - hope it's okay? Wishing you a good day. Hanne Bente
ReplyDeleteLovely - and the textures are great!
ReplyDeleteAll have the same quality about them, my favorite being the baby's breath and sunflower..pretty.
ReplyDeleteLovely images and processing Nancy!
ReplyDeleteI love the Baby's Breath and Moss Rose and all that wonderful bokeh in the sunflower shot!
Certainly a lovely time of year, Nancy!
ReplyDeleteLove these pics - my favorite is the peppermint zinnia!
ReplyDeleteThose are gorgeous flowers! I like the textures and filters you used!
ReplyDeleteWowwwww what a great great flowers !!!...xxx...
ReplyDeleteHappy sunny day...xxx...
ReplyDeleteAwww, so much gorgeousness! :)
ReplyDeleteI adore your sunflower shot, it's my fav flower. :D
Happy day, Nancy! xo
Gorgeous "! I have some of the same flowers in my garden! Have a great day!!!
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are delightful. You have a lovely photographic technique here.
ReplyDeleteI don't live in a rural area, but I sometimes get to photograph rural parts of New Jersey. There's a lot of beauty here to share.
I love your flowers and the photo treatment - but I have to tell you, my heart was lost to that portulaca in the cup! How clever is that? Love it!
ReplyDeleteOne Talented Lady you are.
ReplyDeletehi nancy, i love all of these photo's.
ReplyDeleteand the texture is really nice, too.
xoxo
So beautiful! The textures are perfect. That sunflower though, I love it, it's awesome!
ReplyDeleteOh Nancy what a beautiful thing to wake up to this early morning. B
ReplyDeletethe photo with the hanging pot is most glorious...you always astonish me with your magical garden.
ReplyDeleteYour pictures are beautiful. I love how you edited them. They are such a neat feel to them.
ReplyDeleteNancy, so much beauty in your garden,all beautiful I love the first photo. The garden here at the moment has the Winter blues. I only could find the last of the fading roses and lavender, that I photographed this week on my blog posts. Happy days! Yx
ReplyDeleteI love the pot you are using for your babies breath! Gorgeous all around!
ReplyDeleteThe teal pot with the flowers is my favorite. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteExcellent shots ~ all of them!
ReplyDeletexo Catherine
I love the texture on these photos!! The one of the sunflower is total perfection!
ReplyDeleteAt least you have some blooms to photograph - I ventured around the neighborhood the other morning and it seemed everything has been eaten up by the bugs. (and my neighbor with the sunflowers moved - so sad; guess I'll have to plant my own). Love your first shot especially.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Nancy! The photos of your blooms are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteSo many pretty flowers. I just love that big Sunflower..
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot of flowers! I should start watering 2x a day...or for that matter, 1x a day. Maybe my garden would be doing better....
ReplyDeleteOh Nancy...these are so beautiful! You certainly have a green thumb. I ADORE each of your container gardens! Great job.
ReplyDeleteYour photography is excellent ~ beautiful photo shots and thanks for hosting Rural Thursday~ thanks, ^_^ (A Creative Harbor)
ReplyDeleteLove your header and flowers photos are wonderful . . ,
ReplyDeleteWow, such a variety of pretty flowers. I really like the first photo because there is just something about flowers planted in an old pitcher or watering can that just pleases me.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! and I love your new header.
ReplyDeleteafter 103 degrees here yesterday, it looks like the desert around here. Everything withered quickly.
Probably I should water twice daily!
such a lovely flower collection :) have a great week/end ♥
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Flowers Nancy. sandie
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Nancy! Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteand congratulations on 1000+ followers!!
oh these are beautiful nancy!! we are in for some intense heat through the weekend!
ReplyDeleteAll these flowers are just gorgeous, Nancy. I have lived most of my life in either Arizona or Texas, where the heat and sun are so intense that we rarely have yard flowers much later than May. Nasturtium has always been one of my favorites and they bloom here in Texas in very early spring, and of course petunias rarely survive through June. Even our daylilies are all gone by now!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous flowers n love the edits you made to them.
ReplyDeleteNo Nancy, I followed you from Katherine's Corner and found another blog party. I'll link up real shortly. I do love the photos that you have of your flowers. I particularly like your image of the portulaca in a cup.
ReplyDeleteYael from www.HomeGardenDiggers.com
i really like the containers as well.
ReplyDeletethanks for keeping flowers for leontien going...
Lovely! I really love the rose moss growing in the mug.
ReplyDeletelove all your editing on these gorgeous flowers - I'm going to check our your tips!
ReplyDeletewow, you've got a lot of beauty to surrounding your home
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos and header. I love the edits you've done. I really love the sunflower.
ReplyDeleteLovely! The Baby Breath is my favorite. I've been having to water twice a day...it's almost like a full time job keeping everything at my house watered. I'm still hoping for some rain.
ReplyDeleteyou have a beautiful garden! Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things hop today xo
ReplyDeleteThanks! for posting your process.
ReplyDeleteI always love knowing (so I can do this, too!)
Great, great photos!
your garden looks delightfull, sweet Nancy :) amazing editing work too.
ReplyDeleteWhat happy bloomers! I'm still amazed that I have zinnias starting to bloom in June! The sunflower photo is my favorite...it has a bit of mystery about it and who doesn't love bokeh in the background.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful images... love the "feel"... your header is awesome too!
ReplyDeleteLove your hanging "pots".
ReplyDeleteYour photo of the sunflower is gorgeous!
fantastic photos and processing Nancy!
ReplyDeletelove them all ...
Love this series of shots.. but the old granite coffee pot really tugs at my heart! Thank you Nancy for hosting!
ReplyDeleteYou have some lovely plants, I enjoyed the mug planter.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers, Nancy! I especially love the peppermint zinnia and the lavender (which I'm sure smells divine!).
ReplyDeleteLovin' all those wonderful floral shots, but that last one of the sunflower and all that sunset bokeh is WONDERFUL!! Happy Thursday!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful captures, Nancy! One hour beetwen flowers makes life better.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
Gilson.
All so lovely. My favorites are the moss rose and the sunflower.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous flowers, love the photos.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting.
Wish you a wonderful weekend.
Mette
Lovely beyond words. Just gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI really like your texture work.
I really like the editing. Each is amazing, but must say I like the mug and that awesome sunflower best.
ReplyDeleteNancy, it was really fun! I'll be back next Thursday for sure. I better keep snapping away, huh? I've met some very nice people here. (hug)
ReplyDeleteLove all your blooms! What a creative cup container for the moss rose! I have some planted,too, plus several of your other perennials, too. I like the texture and light in these pics.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos of a beautiful season to be in this world.
ReplyDeleteAloha,
Following ya now from the Favorite Things Hop. We're riding the wave of life at localsugarhawaii.com one little adventure at a time and I'd love it if you'd join us for the sweet ride. And this Saturday we'll be peeking in to another sweet blogger's beach bag and launching our SUMMER Beach BAG Give away... I hope you'll join us.
xo,
Nicole
localsugarhawaii.com
These are so wonderful. Love the banner too.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos and editing. I lost my petunias this week because of the heat and humidity. We're definitely going to have to pay more attention to our garden now that summer is in full swing.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the fun place to come today. I ran off to school this morning, not thinking about my lovely photo I put on tonight. I see you have a new advertiser.. How do you like it? Mary
ReplyDeleteYour flowers and photos are lovely. I especially like the container holding the baby's breath.
ReplyDeleteYou shared a beautiful selection of compositions with us today, thankyou.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures are just lovely!!!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos--I particularly like the first one with the flowers in the blue tea kettle! My first time participating here, and I'm linking up Mule Tips--seemed pretty rural to me! Come meet my brother's mule, Mulysses S. Grant--he's a character! Take care--have a good weekend!
ReplyDeleteOh Nancy! What a beautiful set of photos! Incredible captures, wonderful post processing! Your gardens must be positively stunning!
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