A couple of good sunrises on May 2 and May 3.
Two outings: first I hiked the trails at Cochran Shoals along the Chattahooochee River. Second, I competed in the annual North Georgia Camera Club Council shootout, held this year in Dallas, GA.
All the stuff blooming at once in the yard: irises, roses, daisies, azalea and a few ferns I did not capture. Hostas and hydrangea still to come.
A neighbor who is a master gardener invited me to photograph her yard, So I did. I did not have time to get to all the plantings, That will be for another day.
A few from a nice sunrise and visit to the native plant garden
The crew spent a couple of days at Cloudland Canyon State Park during the week after Easter. On my way there, I stopped for a second look at the Shirley Miller Wildflower Trail northwest of Lafayette, GA and not too far from Cloudland Canyon. I had a different set of blooms this time, and being alone, I took my time to get better images.
The canyon was excellent. We had nice weather, the trails were well-kept, and the blooms were profuse. We drove to the open end of the canyon and hiked up toward the Hemlock Falls and Cherokee Falls. There was a point where the water off the side of the canyon was more than folks wanted to cross, and so we turned back. Still, it was a fun morning out, and I saw many blooms I don’t normally see in my area.
The first half of the pictures are from the wildflower trail, while the second half are from Cloudland Canyon.
I got up early on Easter morning hoping for a nice sunrise to enjoy. What I got was a fog bank. But ya take what ya get, so I went anyway. Later that day, after the fog dissipated, I went out in the yard to shoot the flowers in bloom, irises and azaleas. Along the way was a very pretty weed in bloom, so I captured that also.
I drove to Sosebee Cove hoping to find wildflowers in bloom. I did find some, but the best is still a week or two off. The only things I could identify are one trillium, trout lily and fiddlehead ferns. The others I do not know.
A variety of images. The first is a nice sunrise with my granddaughter. Second is sunrise the next day, this time by myself. Third is from a walk in the greenway with my daughter and granddaughter. Lastly we have images from a hike at Don Carter State Park with the Sonny Day Hikers.
Images from three different outings. First is a set from a foggy morning at West Bank Park just after sunrise. Not a lot to shoot, and it was black and white even in color. So you get mostly silhouettes. The next set is from a hike with the Hearthstone Hikers on the Kolb Farm Loop trail in the south end of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. I was hoping for wildflowers in bloom, but only the buckeyes were blooming. And when i got home from the hike, I went next door and captured some images of the dogwood tree in bloom