Flower enthusiasts will recognise this flower. I just liked it.

I also don't know what these are but they felt like baby triffids at the time.

It's not easy naming images, you know. This is a tulip but my mind suggested a poppy heart. So there.

This is for Val, stuck in the back of beyond where the snow persists. A bouquet for you, to tide you over until something green grows where you live.

The beds do have one advantage and that is to pack in a lot of tulips, thus leading to compositional opportunities, a la Karsh.

The colours draw you in, ever closer.

Closer ... and closer ... until there is a danger of falling into the tulip bed.

"... and on your right we have the lower tulip beds. As you can see, they are arranged by colour ... hey ... come back ... the dog doesn't bite ..." I (...)

The Festival attracted the media. They had cooking shows being broadcast live from the park. Their TV gear blocked some of the beds. A TV camerman and (...)

White tulips are very hard to photograph properly. It helps to have some nearby colour. The Gatineau photo-hounds lined up behind me to take the same (...)

Come on folks ... pull up a pistil ... lunch is on me ... move over Mr. Bumblebee ... mmmm ... sweet!

These serrated tulips are odd. As I was composing, an image came to mind of a ground shark lurling beneath the dark soil to suddenly burst upwards and (...)

I just liked to deep contrast between the red tulip, the green leaves and the dark soil.

The tulip beds at Majors Hill Park are guarded by this serious Boxer. Anyone trying to pick a flower or step into the beds gets a warning growl. An in (...)

I prefer to shoot tulips outside of formal garden beds. Some do escape, you know. I caught up to these ones on the edge of the park by the National Ga (...)

It's not all about tulips either. Here, the wild sprucelion holds its ground against the Lords of Grass. From deep in the concrete heart of the nation (...)

I went for a little tour of Shirley's Bay a couple of weeks back. Before you get to the boat launch there is a small parking lot on the right. Behind (...)

Like I said, the lilacs were in full bloom and the smell gorgeous thanks to the high water table in the area.

A little macro-photography was called for ...

It was still cool when I took these pictures but a few bold bumblebees were out and about. They ignored me as they see this sort of view all the time.