As a reminder, I have one art show wrapping on Friday, and another starting on Saturday here in the local Dallas / Fort Worth area. You are invited to come out and join me for the festivities and enjoy the arts while supporting your local arts community.
I have 3 pieces in the Cleburne Camera Club‘s 2017 Photo Contest & Exhibition Sale. For those of you in the Dallas / Fort Worth area I encourage you to come out and support not only myself, but all the other talented local photographers.
Opening Day Reception & Awards Ceremony on:
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I went over to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens today, I was taking some maternity portraits for a really good friend of mine.In between shots, I couldn’t resist nabbing these 2 quick shots of some bees happily pollinating away among the wisteria blooms.
In addition to the orange-red hues of Indian Paintbrushes, there are also some cousin flowers known as Prairie Paintbrush, the later appears in a range of hues including yellow, pale pink, peach, fuschia and shades in between. While these are found in Texas, they also can be found as far north as Kansas and Missouri.
I was on the 501 between Pontotoc and Cherokee in the Texas Hill Country, when I stumbled along some roadside blooms that had a range of the prairie paintbrush blooming against the Texas state wildflower: the Bluebonnet.
The image with the footpath, comes from Tandy Hills Natural Area in Fort Worth, Texas. Located just minutes from downtown, it preserverves over 160 acres of native prairie, and you can find some spectatcular sunsets here, especially during the blooming season. Milkweed in endless varieties is prevalent, and milkweed is the favorite food (as well as place to cocoon) for the Monarch Butterfly.
Tulips to me are my sign for early spring. I adore these flowers, and love how some varieties almost can look like peonies are other flowers entirely when you just look at the blossom. People don’t usually think about Tulips when they think about Texas, but there is one vast commercial grower in the Dallas / Fort Worth area known as Texas Tulips in Pilot Point, that in addition to offering landscaping services, and selling Tulip bulbs, also has a you pick them field and they welcome photographers too (the field will open late February). The Dallas Arboretum has one of the best spring displays in the country with $5 admission in February (although currently it’s the daffodils that are blooming now, but tulips won’t be far behind), and the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, while not as impressive as Dallas, is free and can have some nice flowers too. I’m already planning this year’s excursions, but here’s some of my best shots from late February / early March 2016.
