Author: queentracey1

My absolute favorite flower is the peony. Of course it’s only in bloom for a few weeks but while they’re here I got a few photos of them.

This shot is up for voting at Static Instants May Photo Challenge so go vote!

Finally a garden bouquet.

I am a busy gal, in the very best way. Unfortunately my poor, lonely camera has seen little action in these past weeks. Perhaps this is why it’s dying on me (PLEASE HOLD ON UNTIL I CAN AFFORD AN UPGRADE!). I pulled some great photos off the memory card with some delightful shots from the zoo. The giraffes stole my heart!

Funny thing about this photo. My sister posted this link on her facebook today, and this giraffe was totally posing just like the photos featured.

A few photos of herbs and flowers from the kitchen and the landlord’s garden.

English parsley drying in the window.

A bit of sage.

A stalk of lavender to dress up the table.

… the wildflowers continue to bloom.

You know those cards that have the seeds embedded in the paper?  Well, a friend gave me such a birthday card a while back.  I’m sure it was meant to be planted outside but I tend to grow things indoors now.  And so I tore up the black-flecked purple card embedded with wildflower seeds, and pushed the paper beneath the soil of a planter or two.  I’d almost forgotten that I had done such a thing and then one day I noticed in a pot of marjoram, new green growth of a different hue. Wildflowers!  Still, I did not think that they would grow very much.  But the spring sun worked its wily ways and one day I peeked into the hallway where the pot does sit, and this is what I saw.

Recently, on a warm day in the city of Boston, I raced through one of its many squares toward my favorite hot dog vendor.  I’d already spent most of my half-hour break running errands and knew that I was going to be late returning to work, but darnit, I needed to eat and wanted a good hot dog.  As I made my way through the square, an elderly man stepped into my path.  He said, “Can you spare a quarter?”  I gazed into his watery blue eyes and said, “No, but would you like a hot dog?”  I don’t know why I said what I said that day, and he certainly wasn’t expecting me to say what I said.  He frowned and blinked a few times and then said, “You don’t have a quarter?”  I didn’t quite put my hands on my hips in exasperation, but I did raise an…

For Hyacinth

I found your flower on this aged image

in the restroom of a hipster douche dive

I could not have been more pleased

With its pistils and leaves

which confirmed you are most certainly

alive.

Captured this New Jersey, I mean, Canadian goose at the riverfront by my house. He was plucking a piece of cracker my son had thrown to him.