Two tulips

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Two tulips

March 25, 2020 by Mike Powell

You don’t have to go far to find beauty—it is all around us. I spotted this beautiful Lady Jane tulip yesterday afternoon in the garden of my neighbor and fellow photographer Cindy Dyer. Cindy loves to photograph flowers and has planted a wide assortment of photogenic flowers in her front and side gardens. I was delighted to see that about a dozen of these little tulips were starting to bloom.

Many of Cindy’s “normal” tulips are starting to form buds, but only one is blooming right now, the beautiful red one that is shown in the final photo. I have always been impressed by the photos that tourists take of broad swaths of colorful tulips in the Netherlands, but for me, I tend to find beauty in the individual flowers.

Posted in Flowers, Gardening, Nature, spring | Tagged Alexandria VA, Canon 50D, Cindy Dyer, Lady Jane tulip, Runnymeade, Tamron 180mm, tulip "Lady Jane", tulips | 15 Comments

15 Responses

on March 25, 2020 at 8:42 am | Reply Reed Andariese

Very Nice Mike! Enjoyed seeing them!
on March 25, 2020 at 9:09 am | Reply Dan Antion

Very nice, Mike.
on March 25, 2020 at 9:10 am | Reply mitzybricker

Lovely tulips.

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on March 25, 2020 at 9:27 am | Reply joyroses13

Thanks for the smile of beauty this morning.
on March 25, 2020 at 12:31 pm | Reply Molly Lin Dutina

None of our tulips are blooming yet! We do however have the largest trout lilies we have ever seen. Perhaps the mild winter and abundant rains?
- on March 25, 2020 at 12:42 pm | Reply Mike Powell
  
  This has definitely been a strange winter. Here in Northern Virginia, things are blooming in abundance, at least a few weeks earlier than normal. We seemed to have started the move out of daffodil season into tulip season. 🙂
on March 25, 2020 at 1:29 pm | Reply Michael Scandling

These are stunning! You should do flowers more often.
- on March 25, 2020 at 1:40 pm | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks, Michael. Flowers sometimes serve as a backdrop when I am trying trying to photograph insects or spiders, as was the case with a crab spider last year. https://michaelqpowell.com/2019/09/07/white-banded-crab-spider/
on March 25, 2020 at 3:10 pm | Reply Eliza Waters

Beautiful edging – the perfection of a single bloom can’t be denied.
on March 25, 2020 at 5:33 pm | Reply New Hampshire Garden Solutions

Beautiful!
on March 26, 2020 at 5:42 pm | Reply Debbie in MA

I love tulips. Along with the crocuses as they are always the first sign of spring in my yard. Take care of yourself my long time friend from Grotonwood. Debbie
- on March 26, 2020 at 5:56 pm | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks, Debbie. Hope all is well with you and your family during this crisis. Lots of things are in bloom here in Virginia, including forsythia bushes, which were one of my Mom’s favorites.
on March 29, 2020 at 8:10 am | Reply Tulip geometry | Mike Powell

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on April 3, 2020 at 9:15 pm | Reply Laura Denise

Geez, Mike. You are seriously gifted. You make me want to improve my own game… My teen daughter has fancy equipment: she’s a photographer too. I’ve had limited means, so use an old non-professional Canon and my iPhone. It doesn’t deter me though. Beauty is indeed everywhere, and a tiny weed flower be presented as majestic.
- on April 3, 2020 at 10:08 pm | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks, Laura. Hang in there. Gear is not really all that important. What is more important, I think it to be there in nature, to seek to find and feel the beauty that is there. If you can record it with whatever camera equipment that you have, so much the better. Really though, the experience is more important than the photos. As you may have noticed, I share what is meaningful to me. Sometimes the photos are super high quality, but sometimes not. An amateur is someone who does it for the love of what they do, not for money or status or anything like that. So, take care of yourself and those around you. That’s what is truly important.