My Garden of Earthly Delights

What's inside your veggies?

Someone took an MRI to find out what veggies look inside.  Fascinating!  I love how watermelon seeds are on curls inside - something you don't see when you cut them open.

Inside insides

Quail in the garden

We have quail visiting from time to time.  Here's a shot of a couple that were moseying along the neighbor's driveway.

Carving the giant pumpkins

It's Halloween, so now is the time I need to carve up these sort of giant pumpkins.  Being big, they aren't real nicely shaped, but I cope and do the best I can.  It was fun though.

 

this above turned into this below

Dragon gourds

I ran across these exotic gourds at a fair and just had to buy some and take them home to take pictures of.  I will use the seeds next year and see if I can grow my own.

Soft warm shades of color

Spent a while messing with some gebera daisies that I had bought and came up with this shot:

Purty pictures

Today I was roaming the property looking for purty things to take pictures of.

Here's what I found:

a graceful gourd

 

a luscious red pepper,

A sculptural sunflower bud

another sunflower that opened

I'm starting to think praying mantis's really like sunflowers to play on

It's actually hard to take a bad picture of a cone flower once you have it in focus

Hummingbird quarrel

I was out photographing green dragonflies in the yard

 

I even found them lined up on the spiderweb encrusted dragonfly sculpture:

 

When I noticed a couple of humming birds utilizing the desert willow for an afternoon snack

I then saw them having a quarrel in the stone pine.  It was quite animated and went on for the longest time.

Although looking at the pictures now, it doesn't look the same hummingbirds.

Carpenter bee disembowels a blossom

Carpenter bees are fascinating to watch, as they are huge and always very busy.  Unfortunately they tend to disembowel the blossoms they visit.

Dancing on the sunflower

A praying mantis performs acrobatic moves on a large sunflower:

Sunset over the horse field

A magnificent sunset over my neighbor's horse field.