Tag Archives: Calendula

A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on July 27, 2020 | 9 comments

The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy. It’s all that matters. -Audrey Hepburn

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier. -Mother Teresa

Happiness is the best makeup. -Drew Barrymore

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are. -Goldie Hawn

Independence is happiness. -Susan B. Anthony

If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh. -William James

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like. -Unknown

Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. -Albert Schweitzer

Stay healthy! Stay safe!

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on July 24, 2020 | 4 comments

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“When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit.”
John Greenleaf Whittier

Stay healthy! Stay safe!

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Tagged Calendula, flower photography, garden, John Greenleaf Whittier, LCsCottage, lily, peony, phlox, rose

Macro Practice

Posted on July 14, 2020 | 8 comments

“You will never get better with the macro lens unless you use it!”

So says my daughter (and my daughter-in-law, and my niece).

They are right. This post is for them.

I almost always shoot with my 55mm lens. I have a macro lens and I whine to them that I have trouble with it.

They are unsympathetic (Actually, they are sympathetic, but not enough to let me off the hook.). Smart girls.

So the following photos are my practice…trying to overcome camera shake…trying to focus properly…trying.

Showing my girls that I am practicing. I am using the macro lens.

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Stay healthy! Stay safe!

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Tagged Calendula, flowers, garden, Lavender, LCsCottage, lily, macro photography, Petunia, phlox, Veronica Waterperry