flowers – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Silent Sunday

September 2, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, silent SundayTags: asters, bee, family, flowers, garden, photography, postaday 5 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

August 22, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: flowers, garden, iris, photography, postaday, wordless wednesday 6 Comments

BLOOM at the Children’s Museum

What a fun time we had at the Children’s Museum Pittsburgh on a perfect summer Thursday evening. Artwork, live music, refreshments, vendors. Good friends. We even had our pictures taken by a professional in the lower floor.

With my friend Jen, posing with flowers by Alison Zapata

Artist **Alison Zapata** with her Gorgeous Paper Flowers

Some of the Staff Art on display -love the knitting.

Getting an envelope with wildflower seeds

***It’s a Burgh Thing*** Flour Sack Towel by **Jeanine Murch**

Founder and CEO Terrell Grayson had a wonderful display of sharp looking bow ties

Vendor Sam of 112 Juice Bar served me a sample of The Pink Lady Organic juice blend.

Thank you for a great time Pittsburgh Kids

“BLOOM is an event to create an open space for the artist community, including the museum staff and visitors, to let their creativity blossom. This event will include a variety of ways to appreciate and engage with local artists and their work + art-making opportunities for guests to explore their own creativity.”

August 17, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: #PGHKIDS, art, artist, bloom, bow ties, childrens museum, city scene, flowers, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday 6 Comments

Silent Sunday

June 3, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, silent SundayTags: available light, backyard, flowers, garden, iris, photography, postaday, sunset 5 Comments

Blooms and Butterflies at Franklin Park Conservatory

Columbus Ohio. Franklin Park Conservatory exhibits. Laura, Anna, Charlie and Roy and I walked through the different exhibits.i liked the colorful butterflies in the Rain Forest. The train display opens June 3rd so we have to return.

A lactation pod First time I’ve seen one

May 21, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Garden, PhotographyTags: butterflies, Columbus OH, flowers, Franklin Park Conservatory, lactation pod, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, topiary, travel 5 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

Lenten Roses in bloom
these plants are from my friend Joan’s Garden

“Lenten rose (Helleborus x hybridus) is not a rose; it’s a perennial hybrid hellebore belonging to the buttercup family”

March 7, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: blossoms, flowers, garden, Hellebore, Lent, Lenten Roses, perennial, photography, plants, postaday 7 Comments

Still Blooming in November

This post is made with my Pittsburgh friend Tookie in mind, as she grows beautiful geraniums.

Here’s a link to the blog post about her magical geraniums

What is still blooming in Samobor, Croatia?

Geraniums

November 6, 2022November 6, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Croatia, flowers, garden, geraniums, photography, postaday, Samobor, travel 5 Comments

Silent Sunday

August 13, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Garden, Photography, silent SundayTags: butterfly, flowers, garden, HIghland Park, neighborhood, phlox, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, summer, swallowtail 9 Comments

Pittsburgh’s Peony Season has Played

Until next year.

Peonies are perennials so will return next Spring. The peony blossoms seemed extra lush this year. And there were some varieties in the Highland Park Gardens I’d not seen before.

Peonies–“Peonies are usually sold as bare-root tubers with 3 to 5 eyes (buds), divisions of a 3- or 4-year-old plant” from the Farmers Almanac “Peonies are said to symbolize a happy life and a happy marriage”

Here is an article about the Biological Mutualism of Ants and Peonies. “It’s a myth that ants are necessary for peonies to bloom” (but they do love the nectar from Peonies)

Artist and fellow blogger from Just a Smidgen blog, paints gorgeous peony blossoms. Click to see her beautiful flower paintings.