Highline Botanical Garden at SeaTac, WA, just gets prettier.

Latticework adorns a weathered wooden arch at the Highline Garden, with view of rusted iron rose arches

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It’s great what the right light can do for a macro flower photo. Such an ordinary flower, but so amazing in good light.

White cosmos with yellow center bloom in August in my Seattle garden

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Friends have the most beautiful garden you can imagine, with a view that just won’t quit. Here is a small visitor checking out the pool on a warm evening recently.

Child peers at floats in a pool, in a garden near Puget Sound in Washington

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In Point Defiance Rose Garden in Tacoma, WA, I was lucky enough to see a beautiful and excited fifteen-year old girl having her Quinceañera photos taken.

A 15-year-old girl poses for pictures in the park for her upcoming Quinceañera

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This display of shade-happy plants is a skillful combination of colors and textures, don’t you think? Some unknown floral designer did a fine job.

Fuchsia, coleus and tiny petunias (Calibrachoa) decorate an outdoor planter

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In a West Seattle friend’s backyard, macro of a flower of a lavatera shrub. What showy, crinkled, ruffled flowers, each one as big as a small apple, and so joyful!

Pink lavatera with red spots in the center.

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Watering the thirsty garden this evening, I looked up. I really love this image and I am calling it my weekly Top Shot.

“Hand of God” rays in the warm evening sky at dusk

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Scenic view of Burien, Washington this evening.

Flower basket and old lamppost in downtown Burien, WA, as the sun sets.

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I had to look it up, but these stargazer lily parts are stamens, which are the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther. I know you had better not get that pollen on your clothes, either—stain city. But inhale that fabulous perfume!

Pink stargazer lily with white edges shows off its perfect, pollen-laden anthers, with daylilies in the background

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Coneflower, or echinacea, is a beautiful garden perennial and I wish I had some in my garden. This was taken at a local garden tour.

Orange coneflower or echinacea blooms in the July sunshine

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