Last week we finally had some rain and a few days of pleasantly cool temperatures.
It didn't last, but just after a soaking rain, I left work early and stopped by a rose garden in a local park. It seemed like the roses had been pruned recently and most were not in full bloom. But there were enough roses to have some fun with macro photography.
In fact, I ended up focusing a lot of my time on a few nearly perfect blooms of Love and Peace.
It was fun to fool around with macro composition. I can't decide between the next two photos.
Maybe I don't need to choose.
I've been thinking about raindrops on roses and other favorite things lately. I posted about some other garden pleasures
here and
here. July is a slow time for gardening here because of the heat and humidity, except that there's an awful lot of weeding that needs to be done. It's nice for me to focus on garden pleasures to make sure I don't forget why I do it.
Thanks once again to Lisa's Chaos where
Macro Monday is hosted each week. Today I see I'm not the only one to post close-ups of roses. There are lots of other fun macro photos there too. Check it out.
