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Friday Slide Show: The Neighborhood Rhododendrons
12 May 2023
We've been doing so much driving lately to check in on Mom each day at the nursing facility that we are not keeping up with our daily constitutional. And this affects our enjoyment of life, let's just say. So we made an effort to get out earlier this week and, my, what a surprise.
The neighborhood was blooming with rhododendrons. Block after block, street after street, it seemed everyone had planted rhododendrons. And for nearly 20 years we haven't noticed.
But we couldn't miss them this year. After the atmospheric rivers of this winter and spring, they bloomed with a vengeance. All we had to do was clamp our jaw, raise the camera to our nose and fire away.
Well, we exaggerate.
It took remarkable dexterity for an aging high hurdler to cramp into position to line up these shots. And given that we were stubbornly using the 18-200mm Nikkor we had not repaired, our composing technique required a sailor's vocabulary.
But that part about our jaw dropping was true. Such explosions of vibrant color. You'd have thought it was the Fourth of July at noon.
We took 47 shots on our short walk around the neighborhood but we'll subject you to just 21 of them. And, full disclosure, they are not all rhododendrons. There's a few cacti and snapdragons in there too.
Because, you know, we can't all be rhododendrons. Some of us are a bit prickly and some of us have a mouth.
But we're all beautiful in the sunlight.
