Some of the Remains of the day

shadowmask (55)in #justincase • 7 years ago

A Tree Tuesday Follow on Post

I have been wondering what to do with this extra account, I think I have found a sort of purpose for it. I do not want to over burden my primary account and those that are following and supporting me there. So I will use this as an overflow account. So lets go.

Our first stop after the snack stop and gas stop was at a local green house in Sterling. I asked the owner if I could take a few pictures in the veggie patch and he said it was okay. First up from there is this beautiful ready to harvest cabbage.

The second image from that stop is this nasturtium bloom in a hanging basket. The green house is primarily a veggie green house with all kinds of edibles, and a few flowers, but nasturtium blooms are supposedly edible, and they are pretty flowers.

Of course I took more than those two pictures but those two came out the best. So on into the mountains we continue. One of the stops we made was at Trail Lake, a very nice mountain lake. This is a small patch of blue daisies near the lake there were several patches, and it would have been nice to make it up to the lake earlier in the season when I am sure they would have been putting on a much better bloom show. Fall is creeping in fast.

Next we went a little bit further up the road, well back tracked actually, and just past the Homer turn off is a pullout that over looks Tern Lake. Not quite as sharp and clear of a photo as I like but still this is a nicely framed Fire weed about to top out as we call it. When the final blooms reach the top, fall is really just around the corner. Some old time Alaskan say you can tell how much snow you are going to get by how tall the Fire weed grows.

There was a lot of cropping, rotating, and sharpening done for that picture, one day I will learn how to properly use my camera and my paint program, but for now the results are okay to me.
It was a nice day in the mountains but we were out a little longer than we expected, time really does fly when you are having fun and are busy having fun, so it was time for the drive back. It seemed like the drive back took forever. We did have one last stop to make, and that was at the Sterling Zoo, and I will do a nice post on it on my main account @bashadow. A very nice Sitka rose bloom is up first.

For such a simple little flower they are to me very beautiful they may not have all the various layers of horticulture roses, but they are rather beautiful in their simplistic manner. A sign of times to come and hope springing eternal.

The new fresh bud trying to tell us, all is not lost as my brethren, (the bloomed out remains below) would have you believe, fall is not here yet, and we will succeed, to bring spring once again.
And now for one last final picture for the post, this picture had nothing to do with this trip, it was from a previous trip, the same trip of the tri-forked tree used in my Tree Tuesday Plus post. Just a small fungi to close out from Skilak lake.