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Outside Flower Garden The flowers outside of the estate were pretty, but only a glimpse of what was inside. |
Outside Flowers Still, I had to see what shots I could get. |
Blooming Trees They smelled good, too. |
Stumpy Trees Apparently a trademark view of the estate. |
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Stumpy Trees, II Knowing the species would somehow be like cheating. |
Stumpy Trees, III Where's Dad when I need him? |
The Mansion |
Tim and Flowers That's a lot of flowers. |
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Beth and Flowers She was definitely excited to be seeing this place. |
Japanese Partition The house tour was full of pretty, expensive stuff like this. |
Living Room I really didn't internalize too much of it, though. |
Maps and Serving Pitchers All I really got out of it was "this stuff is pretty." |
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Wall Painting That, and I like wall paintings like this. |
Outside Flowers The outside had flower pots as well as planted flowers. |
The Gardens The gardens were the real attraction. |
Garden Flowers I liked these excessive flower counts. |
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Topiaries One of Dad's favorite photographic targets is certainly fun for me as well. |
Tall Topiaries Were these clipped by hand, or by vertical lawnmower? I hope the latter. |
Tulips Beth's favorite flower. |
Tulip Our cat is named after this. Sortof. |
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The Back of the House I think it's prettier than the front, anyway. |
Photography Getting the shot of the one flower. |
Fields of Flowers These looked much more free, which is pretty satisfying (in small quantities). |
Bluebells Is that right? |
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Landscape I think this was supposed to look good in other seasons. |
Small Maze As I recall, this was supposed to be the layout of one of the actual mazes. |
Walls of Flowers Walls of flowers mean one thing - hummingbirds! |
Hummingbird I was excited to actually see one. |
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Hummingbird, II I had never tried my hand at photographing one before. |
Hummingbird, III The trick, apparently, is to believe that you actually got it. |
Hummingbird, IV They're moving fast, but not *insanely* fast. |
Hummingbird, V So I took a lot of pictures, and a lot of them turned out... |
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Hummingbird, VI ...and for the sake of the story, I left even the vaguely adequate ones in. |
Hummingbird, VII They're cool though, neh? |
Hummingbird, VIII Only a couple more. |
Hummingbird, IX There. That's a hummingbird. |
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Back to Hedges From the other direction this time, at least. |
Goldrush Apple Tree There, this is more up my Dad's alley. Goldrush! |
Apple Very descriptive. |
Spitzenberg Another apple tree. |
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Pink Pearl And another. I don't think I've tried most of these apples. |
Gravenstein They must be west-coast cultivars. |
Central Pool And entirely alone. Odd. |
Bigger Maze I told you there were mazes! |
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More Tall Topiaries Yeah, I guess I am obsessed. |
Flower Tree Again I like this shot. Too bad I again don't know what it is. |
Flower Tree Again, II It's a common refrain. |
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