Got off my lazy behind and tooks some pictures of Golden Rod flowers. Missed this opportunity last years since I kept putting it off. These need major retouching, but all I did was resize them and uploaded them to the Shack. I tried to create an album, but the Shack's having a conniption for whatever reason (w.r.t. creating albums anyway).

The goldenrod is gorgeous and I'm so glad it's in a photo. Aaaaaah-choooooooo!!! in person.

Also, those yellow daisies are beautiful. I love daisies especially.

lol; yeah. I'm not allergic, but usually the pollan can get so high that I can still sneeze and do get headaches once in a while. Anyway, though I would process at least one of these captures. Pushed a little beyond the realm of real though (it's what I do). Did it from the jpeg (normally would Adobe bridge from RAW, but thought I would see what I can do witht the jpeg so it's an all GIMP edit).

My first reaction to the images is that the color needs a bit of brightening. I downloaded that last image, scaled it down, duplicated the layer and set the top layer to grain merge. That brightened it considerably. A lazy way to do it.

Like your edit too O.

A very small wildflower in my town, no larger than 1.5 inches in diameter all red bouquet:

And here the same image magnified, thanks to 12 megapixels:


Taken with a cheap Kodak camera.

just took this outside my back door

I love everyone's flowers! It makes me want to take some. Actually, though, everything here is beautiful orange, yellow and red leaves. It's so gorgeous!

I have my usual sites I check every morning, GC is one. This morning my wife didn't feel like turning her laptop on so she just watched mine. When I got here she noticed this thread and wanted to see 'a page or two.' After looking at all 27 pages she decreed that I need to get pics of local plants and post them so I'll be doing that.
For the next few days though I don't plan on doing anything, I'm resting for Saturday, when I'm walking in a walk for life. Considering I'm an old guy with arthritis it's going t be very painful. I promise though, that I'll post some flower pics.

perhaps your wife could pick some of her favorites for you to take pics of.

This greeted me this morning...the flower will only last a few hours and then be gone....the plant itself has many buds this year though so we will be blessed with others over the next few weeks

akky: that's a real beauty! real flowers don't seem to make the same impression on me as painted ones, but i love these. my mum used to have a plant, it would bloom sometime in late summer and when she saw a bud was about to burst she invited people over for an imporvised party that would last as long as the flower .

this one came out this morning...flower is nearly the size of a dinner plate!! and a few more buds to open as well

Wow Pauline; never seen a catus flower so big. What type of cactus gives you that type of flower? Like the white cactus flower to but it is a shame that the flower for it doesn't last very long.

Lyle I have no idea what it is called...we were given a piece of it and this is the result...the white one above it is about 3 inches in diameter. there are more coming on it as well...over the next few weeks...the white is covered in buds...The red kinda looks like a type of zygo cactus but it has massive segments bout 6-8 inches long

Corn plants are pretty common but in all my life I have never seen one bloom until this year. This one is at the office where my wife works. They were all amazed when they saw the blooms.

what do you call a corn plant..has a variegated leaf...is the flower highly perfumed....it looks like wht I call a happy plant

This is what I found in Google, apparently it is also called a Dracaena as in Draconian

http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forum ... hp?t=50307

I have had this plant for a couple yrs now and it is in its 2nd time around. I knew the name of it but now I forgot. Can someone please identify this for me...thanks

its very pretty Molly but I havent a clue what it is sorry