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“When people see some things as good, other things become bad.” Tao Te Ching

I was out this morning for a short bit in the hills photographing what the locals here call Okanagan Sunflowers. They cover the hillsides here in early May and are as lovely as any garden flower.

You can see a few shots in the Straight From The Camera section of my site.

Check out this week’s newsletter here.

I’ve got more new photos coming tomorrow… but here’s one I liked while editing.

“He whose self is established in Yoga, whose vision everywhere is even, sees the Self in all beings, and all beings in the Self.” Bhagavad-Gita 6:29

In case you didn’t get it, this week’s newsletter features the Frozen Orchards I have been photographing. A new feature of the newsletter this week is that I now offer framed prints of all the pictures in the newsletter.

I just added a few more framed prints to my website. Go to Framed Prints to see them.

This Thursday I will be mailing out cards for the month of May to everyone in the Card of the Month Club. If you want to sneak into the club in time to get May’s cards, click here before it’s too late.

The cards for May are these three below:

It turns out all the orchards are leaving their sprinklers on in the freezing weather. This morning I photographed this orchard just a 100 yards in back of us.

Apparently the ice protects the buds from hard frost. It seems a little like soaking a carpet to protect it from flood to me, but I don’t know much about growing fruit trees. The flower buds do look pretty ok. Who’da thunk it!

Check out the new photos at Straight From The Camera.

This morning I got a call from Blaine’s sister, Bev, saying that there was an orchard covered with icicles down the road. It was cold last night and the orchardists left their sprinklers on to “protect” the flower buds from the frost.

When I arrived, I realized that it was the same orchard that I photographed last week with ice on it, but this time the icicles were much larger (about a foot long) and every branch of every tree was covered.

Check out all the photos at the Straight From The Camera section of my site.

If there’s someone you want to send icicles to, you’ve now got the greeting cards to do it!