The unseasonably warm weather is causing intense cabin fever. I can’t stand being cooped up in the house. I must be outside. It’s too early to do any gardening so I took my camera on a walk around Rutgers Gardens. It was a great day for photography. I came away with a record three Photos of the Day.
All of the ponds were still covered with ice. This, the largest, had a few areas of open water.
I didn’t realize that bamboo is evergreen. I love the contrast of the browns and grays with the green of the bamboo. It gives the appearance of a hidden garden.
The pond in the display gardens was full of acorn-like nuts, leaves and if you look carefully, you can see fish just below the ice.
The drabness of the winter landscape made details that I might ordinarily overlook really stand out. Like this bright orange fungus.
I’ve photographed this tree many, many times in the spring, summer and fall but it wasn’t until it was stripped bare that I saw how intertwined the branches were.
I ended my walk at what has become my favorite place in the gardens, the old greenhouse.
It’s boarded up now and the broken panes of glass have been removed but it still draws me back every time that I visit.
3 comments:
The orange fungus is amazing.
One of the things I do like about winter is being able to see the skeleton of the trees. The tree you photographed is certainly wrapped up in itself. :0)
Those orange mushrooms are very very cool!
I probably should have run the fungus photo through Photoshop. The orange color was actually much more intense. It didn't look real!
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