
This saffron crocus is a welcome bit of color as the rest of the blooms and foliage are fading. I just need a few more of these beauties to bloom before I can make some saffronated rice.
12MP digital camera with f/1.8 aperture. Front-facing camera 7MP with f/2.2 aperture.
Purchased in December 2018 as an upgrade from the iPhone 6. This was my main camera for three years, until I upgraded to an iPhone 8 for Christmas 2021.
This saffron crocus is a welcome bit of color as the rest of the blooms and foliage are fading. I just need a few more of these beauties to bloom before I can make some saffronated rice.
I planted two dozen Crocus sativus corms earlier this autumn. Today, the first flower emerged, bearing three dark orange threads of saffron.
This pollinator seems to enjoy having a late-season flower to visit. Hopefully she’ll have a few more blooms to choose from in the next few days!
Drafting a copy of the single pair of karate pants I own, so I can sew myself a second pair.
Having some dinner between Connor’s karate class and my Krav class.
Last week was the first light frost of autumn in my Zone 6 garden. While these photos were taken before the frost, most of the blooms actually held up well.
Although I already made mention of this in last month’s Bloom Day post, I really have to thank Nan Ondra of Hayefield for making her seeds available online. This Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia) is seriously my new favorite annual, with dozens of blooms on many branched stems reaching six feet tall and nearly as wide. I hadn’t thought of orange as a color I’d want more of in my borders, but this plant changed my mind bigtime.
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