A few more shots from the Missouri Botanical before I move on to one of its sister sites, the Butterfly House and gardens at St. Louis County’s Faust Park.
As I wrote this I was viewing the photo below in the WordPress Editor on my desktop and the photo looked so washed out that I was going to delete it. I first decided to view it in Preview mode and it looked much better so it’s still here. Why it looks so bad in the editor I’m not sure but I do know that all the white surrounding the photo does not complement it in anyway. That’s one thing I don’t like about the WordPress Reader, all the white surrounding my photos. I think they look much better on my actual WP web site because of the black background. Looking at them on a phone in WP Read is a little better than on a desktop PC because the surrounding white is minimized a little.
The kids love this when they come to it in the garden because they can climb on the sheep and “ride” them. The fact that they are different sizes lets both big and little kids get on. We went early on a school day so there weren’t a bunch of moms up front with their smart phones taking pictures of a dozen kids.
Looks like a zinnia to me.
The sign said these are ornamental peppers and also gave a couple of Latin names for them. I didn’t try to remember those names.
Another or maybe the same zinnia this time with a nice, ribbed leaf background.
Don’t miss the dragon fly: third water lily from the left.
Thank you for stopping by.
David
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The water lilies are incredibly beautiful, I think the pictures work well in WP, especially when you enlarge each individual picture.
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Thank you Hans and I’m glad things looks good to you in WP.
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Nice set, David. That last one is pretty special.
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Thank you Eliza. I like the pearlescent effect of the red lilies.
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Love the ribbed leaf background with the zinnia. And those sheep, pretty cool and different. Yep, my grandboys would be all over them too.
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Thanks Donna, that zinnia with the leaf background is my favorite photo in the series. I’m thinking if they had a much larger sheep I’d be climbing with my grandkids.
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I was going to say this Grammy would have been on those sheep too if they were big enough! 😉
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These are all stunning photographs, David! I particularly like the top image and the water lily. Not only is the flower so attractive, but the leaves are, too.
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Thanks Pete. Some of the more colorful leaves remind me of a painter’s palette.
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Beautiful image one and all David! I used to use the WP Reader but give it up for reason I don’t remember but the top shot does look great in your WP Blog.
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Thank you John. I got used to looking at images with a black background years ago when I edited my home VHS videos and then moved on to video slide shows. The software I used had a black interface. One other editor I had tried had a gray interface and I notice that I thought the black was more flattering to the videos and images.
I used to upgrade with every new edition but in later years I switched to upgrading just every two years. One upgrade came out with a major overhaul. All the square and oblong shapes for buttons and stuff no longer had right angles, everything was rounded. I noticed other video and photo software companies were doing the same thing and they were all (including the maker of my software) also moving from the black interface to gray.
Well I got all up in arms was was going to let them know what exactly I thought about the change from black to gray. Fortunately, before I did, I discovered that you could choose between black and gray in the Settings. 🙂 I was back to being a happy camper even if all the angles had been rounded. 🙂
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