Iris Linda Laing

A close up portrait of a tall bearded iris named Linda Laing. Catalogued as an overall rosy red with slightly darker and lighter areas of the flower with an orange-hued beard. Introduced by Hybridizer Donald Spoon in 2002.

rosy Wings Pink Iris

A close up macro view of a beautiful pink iris named Rosy Wings. Hybridized by Merton L. Gage in 1935, the historic iris blends bronze, pale washed rose with deeper rose red in the falls and a yellow-orange beard.

Iris-Who Needs a Prince

A charming, jaunty, colorful bearded iris in yellow, gold and plum purple named Who Needs a Prinnce. This iris was hybridized by Schreiner and introduced in 2013. The Schreiner catalogue describes it as follows "a unique color combination, in which the yellow zonal pattern and beard predominate. The melding of lemon yellow standards and plum violet falls makes for an unusual variegata. Very tall – 40”, it has heavy substance, strong fragrance and big flowers."

NY-NJ Hudson River under Summer Skies

A fiew looking southward down the Hudson River in late afternoon on an early summer's day. The city of Hoboken is in the foreground and stretch down to Exchange Place in Jersey City. The Hudson River flows into Newark By and in the background, a stretch of the New YOrk City skyline from south of Chelsea to the tip of Manhattan and One World Trade Center.

NYC-Hudson River Cloudy Day sundown

A view of the west side Manhattan skyline and Hudson River at sundown with blue skies breaking through the clouds and a golden layer of sundown color.

NY Skyscrapers Sundown Blue and Gold

A view of skyscrapers of Manhattan reflecting blue and golden sundown sky.

NYC and a sundown Rainbow

A view of midtown Manhattan skyscrapers, the Hudson River and a distant rainbow as sundown light turned the city to gold.

Sundown Finale NYC

A view of the midtown Manhattan Skyline and Hudson River as the last golden sundown light gransforms the skies and skyscrapers in this cityscape. A rain squall east of the city brought heavy cloud cover which was clearing as the sun painted this amazing cityscape.

Rainbow of Roses

Imagine an entire lborder rose bush filled with clusters of multi-colored roses if you can. This is a close up view of the center part of one cluster of these charming roses. Named Peach Drift, it is a dwarf shrub variety that can be used as a ground cover or border rose. It blooms from mid-spring to the first hard freeze of late Fall. It is descvribed as a peach, apricot, salmon hued rose but as seen from this image, the flowers deepen and change in color from bud to maturity.

Pink Rose Bonica

Bonica is a soft pink vigorous, long-blooming shrub rose. Blooms grow in clusters and the disease resistant shrubs work well for banks, against walls, mass plantings or borders.

Westerland Rose Portrait

A close up view of a lovely Westerland rose. Westerland is a double bloom, fragrant, reblooming rose. The large blooms are ruffled in hues that are a blend of apricot, light orange and pnks. The sturdy shrubs can be used for beds, borders, hedge, vines or climbers.

Rose Above and Beyond

A portrait of an opening rosebud as the sunlight appears after a rain shower. The'Above and Beyond' Rose is a large-flowered, hardy climbing rose, producing apricot hued blooms in the spring and summer with a mild, spice fragrance. The climber reaches heights of 9 to 13 feet and spreads of 13 to 16 feet. The rose plant can also be trained as a shrub.

Rose Summer Sun

A close up view of an eye-catching rose named Summer Sun. This partially open blossom is prinkled with rain drops from a spring shower. The fragrant floribunda rose grows in clusters of long-lasting large salmmon-red-orange-apricot flowers with creamy yellow on the reverse side of the petals.

Quietness Pink Rose

A fragrant, soft pink rose with a richer pink center - aptly named Quietness. Here, a bud in the process of opening wiht it's outer petals serving as a background to the center budy.

Peach Drift Roses

Peach Drift Roses. A colorful compact rose bush in primarily peach with yellows and pinks in the flower variations. Drift roses are a hybrid of ground cover roses buehes and miniature rose bushes. Peach Drift flowers from spring until frost and works well in gardens as borders or can also be used in containor gardening.

NYC Sundown Sailing on the Hudson

Sundown gold on the NYC skyline buildings and the sailing boats bobbing along on the Hudson River.

NYC and Afternoon Clouds

A view of the New York west side skyline and Hudson river in alate afternoon with an eye-catching dky.

N.J> Gold Coast under the Clouds

A sweeping view in black and white of Hoboken N.J. in for foreground, Jersey City in the diistance and the southern tip of Manhattan across the Hudson River.

Blue Hydrangea Blossom

A close up view of the lovely, delicate looking florets that make up a large clustered flowers of a hydrangea in bloom. Also known as hortensia, hydrangeas bloom in a varietiy of pink, blue, whie and purple hues. The deciduous (some species retain their leaves) plants grow in either shrub or small tree form. They are native to southern and eastern Asia and the Americas.

Pink Hydrangea Florets

A close up view of the lovely, delicate looking florets that make up the larger clustered flower globes of a hydrangea in bloom. Also known as hortensia, hydrangeas bloom in a varietiy of pink, blue, whie and purple hues. The deciduous (some species retain their leaves) plants grow in either shrub or small tree form. They are native to southern and eastern Asia and the Americas.

Garden Fern Semi-abstract

A semi-abstractview of a garden patch of green fern plants.

Abstract Art-Stoned

A macro view of a piece of rock showing the amazing structure, texture and colors that one does not notice without a closer view. Nature creates beauty in so many unexpected places.

One World Trade Tower PRIDE colors

A view of the One World Trade Center Tower with the spire lit in rainbow colors in recognition of PRIDE celebration in NYC.

DaylilyDelight

A close up macro image of an orange woodland daylily framed against a shaded tree line background. A daylily is a flowering plant in the genus Hemerocallis. Originally found growing wild, they are now cultivated into thousands of cifferent colors and cultivars.