Mine!

See there on the heavy branch weighed down below the height of the tank,wedged between it and the support trellis, slightly obscured from overhead view by the overflow pipe, rambling roses and other vines.

A closer look as I zoom in from where I was standing with the previous photo.

5 plump luscious nectarines! 

The birds can't see and perhaps can't reach. They will be ripe enough to pick within days!

Rose hips

This is one of the more unusual and beautiful Hips in the garden, it appears on one of the 'old fashioned' roses. That is how I refer to them. Someone told me they were English roses but I also seem to think they might be what My Mum called wild roses.

I didn't notice the shiny little iridescent bug until after I uploaded the photos.

Here is one open.

The Evening Sky

This is what I saw when I went out at about 8.20 to bring in the washing after a very warm day. 

Stunning.

Red Rose

There is such a lovely collection of Roses here, I don't think I even identified this as a rose prior to it flowering  its not the type of rose I am familiar with but There are a lot of these in various colours and sizes and I love them all.

Purple roses

This is one of the purple roses in our garden. This one is a standard and has a clematis climbing it and twining up through its top. The weeping red you see in the background is one of my favourite standard roses in this garden.

Beautiful Scent

I can sing a rainbow.

I haven't done a rainbow post for a long time but theres so much happening right now its a great time for one.

Red and Yellow and Pink and Green Purple and Orange and Blue!

Pig Face

Daisy

Rose

Apricots

Clematis

Iris

We have Roses.

The colourful parade of Roses has begun!

So very many seemingly all starting at once, I can't keep track. I adore opening the kitchen window in the early evening and smelling the perfume of the roses hanging in the air, on these warmer days.

Miniature Rose

A cluster of Buds, I think this one is pink and has a beautiful scent ( from memory )

Blush of new growth

Rose Hips

My last day of Autumn Post some rose hips I photographed two weeks ago. There  is such an amazing array of shapes, sizes and colours of rose hips here. These are two of the more interesting ones ( to me )

Tiny Berry like Hips

Tear dropped  longer orange hips

Blue

Time for Some late Autumn Sky.

Maple

Crab Apple

Rose

Experimenting

I am really very lucky to have been loaned a DSLR camera by an exceptionally thoughtful, person to have a play with for a couple of days.

Its a canon 400D using a 75-300 lens.

So for the next few days I'll just share my observations and experiments with this camera.

These were taken on Monday, the first Day I had it, it was drizzly and grey. My first observation is using this camera has really absolutely minimised editing post taking the photos, the backgrounds in macro are already totally appropriate and the colours are so much more accurate to real life.

When I saw the camera could capture a rose and subdue the background like this ...

I started to experiment with placement of subject to get a more 'arty' photo.

 Then I just started to see things differently and look for opportunities like this.

I'll schedule a couple more posts with less words based on the photos I took on Monday. Then follow on with additional days. :)

The worst and the best...

... Cut flowers.

Of course I haven't sampled them all but I am learning.

These orange - pink blush  roses are soft and pretty and have the most divine fragrance but wilt by the afternoon if cut and put in a vase.

These structured, frilly, bright, beautiful Yellow roses well and truly go the distance as a cut flower.

A beautiful place to rest

After the rain

Out my kitchen window.

Maple to the left, Camellia to the right.

A lot of leaf litter under the standard Rose. a leg of the pergola.

The post with the seeds the kids grew, Nasturtium and Alyssum,

Gorgeous Colour in the background.

Such a pretty cheerful view.

I can sing a rainbow.

Red 

And Yellow

and Pink

and Green.

Purple

and Orange

and Blue

 ♪ I can sing a rainbow , sing a rainbow , sing a rainbow too. ♫ 

A light pink one.

Light Pink is certainly not the end of the Roses, there are Orange, White, Cream, and any and all shades in between what I have show so far,  also so many not currently in flower that I just don't know. There will be more but its just time for a break in the Roses transmission. : )

A dark Pink one