I didn’t visit Cindy’s goat farm today to see her 19 baby goats; I’m going tomorrow afternoon. Minnie ate a bit, moved around, and returned to her cat house on the porch. She can crawl but not walk.

Today, I began experimenting and thinking about the design of my raised beds and the depth of my photographs. One of my big ideas is that flowers are a community; they needn’t only be seen one at a time, but their beauty, I think, comes in part from context – where are they, what other colors are around, how do plan the bed in ways that suggest color and different sizes and shapes, all come together to create a beautiful whole.

I’m trying to explore that in this photograph; I took all of them yesterday. One is always connected to another or suggests something more significant. I distributed the flowers in this photo above to resemble a rolling hill, up and down flowers, tall mixed with short, all kinds of colors.

It is startling to me; I like it.

The Leica has a beautiful ability – glass unlike any other – to soften flower photographs and give them feeling and emotion.

This is one of my new flowers; I put it in front of the white ones to make the pink stand out and give it a background.

I took this photo in bright sunlight, trying to capture the unique beauty of a sunlit flower.

I don’t remember even getting these star flowers just popped up today.

These are the latest flowers from a nursery in Vermont. I drove an hour to get two more of them.