Where’s the “red” you ask? It’s the small berries on this holly bush that caught my eye, up against the white brick wall on a building in Martinsville city.
Sometimes, if you take the time to look, you might see small things that are positioned inside a much larger setting…details which are often missed. Many today are so rushed to “see it all as fast as they can”, that they miss lots of things sitting in plain view right before them. Slow down is my message.
Thanks to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, there are still some flowers blooming along the highway. This was an especially beautiful batch, and I’ve been passing it for weeks as I drive back and forth to Greensboro, shopping and whatnot. So, last week I stopped alongside the road and made the image you see here. I had to crouch way down to get the highway out of the frame. I also wanted the single flower in the center, highlighted by the sky. Nikon P7100 camera.
Saw these wild flowers at about 3700 feet elevation along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. Butterflies made the scene even better!
What is this wild flower? I don’t know. It’s pretty anyway and when I stopped along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia to capture its beauty with my Nikon, I saw evidence that I was not the first who had done so…lots of mashed down weeds all around the flowers where people had stood.
Mountain Laurel is now (or just was) in bloom. Mainly whites and pinks. Above 2500 feet elevation. Beautiful!
I stylized my original photo of these vines slowly crawling up a brick wall. Virginia creeper vine.
Another iPhone “flower shot”…but this one was on a big Magnolia tree across the street from our house. Those blooms don’t stay around for long, so you have to be ready when they first open up.
