Cope - Thorum Wedding flowers

I love her bouquet!!! 

Christmas Snow

Thursday, August 5

I loved the way the light was shining through the petals on these roses. I seriously could post so many more pictures from the rose garden in Portland but I'll try not to go overboard...

Natural Beauty

Post for Wednesday, August 4

While we were in Portland we went to Washington Park and saw the most beautiful display of roses I have ever seen in my life at the Rose Garden there. These roses, Heart of Gold Hybrid Tea the orange and pink, and Funkuhr Hybrid Tea the yellow and pink variety were my favorite. The sign on the yellow one said it in not in production :( The natural colors are so beautiful.

More from the lily pond...

This is another one that I really liked from the Lily Pond at Lincoln Park. I took a couple different shots of these flowers with the tree right behind it, but this one is my favorite.
Just a side note, I'm going on a long road trip for the next three weeks so I will have a post for every day, but I might post more than one on some days when I am in a car all day, or hiking a mountain, or at a beach, or just playing games with the fam and don't have time to get it done. I will however be sure to take lots and lots of pictures and try not to be so timid to ask people to take pictures of them (or their children- cough cough, my nephews) and hopefully I'll have a lot of good ones to choose from in the next few weeks.

Lily Pond Butterfly

Today we went downtown for the last time before I leave for CA and we move to spend an afternoon at our favorite beach in Chicago. On our way home we thought it would be fun to stop and see if we could get some good pictures at Lincoln Park Zoo. We ran into a sign and a fenced in area that said it was a Lily Pond, so we decided to check it out. There were a ton of wildflowers, butterflies, birds, bees, and of course, lilies. It was really beautiful. Here is my favorite picture of a butterfly that I caught. It took a lot of patience to get this shot! I don't know why I seem to be fascinated with flowers and nature lately... it's just beautiful. I also think it's peculiar that I'm terrified of most bugs big and small, even moths... but for some reason butterflies don't frighten me in the least.

More Color Silhouette

Color Silhouette

I took some pictures of my mom's hostas plants because they bloom these pretty purple bell flowers this time of year. I've been thinking about doing these pictures for our bathroom to decorate. Our color scheme is purple and black so I thought it would be cool to have silver picture frames with black and white pictures of purple flowers but leave the flower color exposed. Anyway, so I tried it today and this is what I ended up with. It's a little late for me to worry about a few spots I missed, I'll get them before I print them for our bathroom if I do go ahead with the idea.