Pepys visits the garden: catching up! (Sandy's garden pics May 7-14, 2007)

Last week I got sick, so some things stopped happening while I caught some extra sleep and spent time making myself honey'n'lemon tea. Betwixt and between, though, I took a couple hundred garden pictures.

I ran through the pics pretty quickly to pick out the ones that might be worth posting, so there are some repeats and such, but that's partly so Sandy can see more than just the better pics. More later on pics from my garden etc.

On Wednesday I paused in front of Sandy's house to stare at a foxglove. I was debating stopping vs calling on my way home, but Sandy beat me to the decision. She came rushing out of the house to holler at me, and of course I couldn't stop with the tour of the front gardens. Pictures, mostly from the back garden, are up. Some of my favorites:

(in order, Sandy's elephant ear corm, goldfish, lily reflection, baby mantis, foxglove throats)

I clearly needed to come back with a 300mm lens, and on Saturday morning I took my camera with me when I went in to lab to work. It was such a good idea. After work and lunch, I gave Sandy a call (from in front of her house ). She and Mike were finishing some apple fritters (ooooh, Mike's mom makes good apple fritters. never had'em that good.) and it was ~just~ threatening to rain. We ate a couple fritters and then I dragged Sandy out for pictures before rain started. The resulting pictures are here, and again I have some favorites: