Flowers

The weather here in Southern Illinois has been quite Spring like. In fact, it was about 75 degrees! Being as it's mid-Winter, it should be below freezing, 32 degrees. It's been so warm, flowers are blooming out all around my yard. Here's a picture I took of some daffodils blooming in my yard and they are five weeks earlier than last year. They're way ahead of schedule! Winter is not really over yet, so I'm afraid we might get one more cold spell and kill all my flowers and other budding plants. Taken on February 22nd, 2023, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

This was the Tulip Tree, in my side yard, when it was blooming back in 2019 Camera: Yashica FX-7 Super Lens: Yashica ML Zoom 35-105mm, f/3.5 @105mm Filter: Optex 55mm Skylight (1A) Film: Kodak Max 400 Aperture: f/3.5 Shutter Speed: 1/125 of a sec. Date: April 7th, 2019, 3.33 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo Flo 200: 1 minute Yashica FX-7 Super Kodak Max 400 2019 04ef

Some of the flowers in my front yard. Camera: Argus DF-300 (Minolta X-300 clone) Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Closeup Lens: Hoya X3 55mm Film: Fuji Film Superia X-TRA 400 (expired on 12/2020) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: 1/1000 of a sec. Date: June 10th, 2021, 2.00 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 30 secs. at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Argus DF-300 Fuji X-TRA 400 Misfits 24ff (Orton)

This is the flower bed in the front corner of my yard that I've been working on for several years. This shot was taken on April 4th, 2022. The tall, square patch in the middle are Lilies. Around that, I have been transplanting some wild flowers that grow all over my yard in spots. They are called Wild Grape Hyacinths. I have placed them around the bed to border everything. To the right, just behind the original stand of Lilies, I transplanted some Irises from my back yard, because nobody could see them. So, as they are, the Wild Grape Hyacinths bloom first, like you can see in the picture, the Lilies bloom second and then the Irises bloom last. I have flowers blooming for a long period in this little patch and it's adds a little color to my lawn. The telephone pole in the top left of the picture indicates my property line. You can see West Main Street running in front of it and it passes right along my front yard. I put all the flowers here so they could be seen by people passing by.

These Grape Hyacinths were just growing wild in my yard until I transplanted them to a better, more advantageous spot. These are actually really small, about an inch in height. Taken on March 29th, 2021, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

Taken with a Konica Autoreflex TC on Kodak film in 1978. This was some wildflowers growing in my back yard. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 color film Date: 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF 5035 Yard 1978 04hf