English Daisies

A group of varied colored pink and white English Daisies in a local garden.

White English Daisies

A close up macro view of two white English Daisies blooms.

Pink Kwanza Cherry Blossoms

A cluster of beautiful ruffled, layers cherry blossom flowers.

Tulip Festival Fields and Barn

An angled view of muliple rows of peak bloom tulip flowers in various hues with a farm building in the background, all toped by a gorgeious blue and white sky. Image taken during the Tulip Festival at Holland Ridge Farms in New Jersey.

Sun Power Tulip in Gold and Orange

All of the glory and beauty of a magical sunrise packed into a tulip blossom. Sun Power is a double-flowered peony-like tulip that blooms with a color mix of gold, yellow, red and orange. When first opening it is gold but turns more and more orange and red as it opens more fully. Quite a eye-catching color and size - a beauty of a tulip.

Tulip and Farm Landscape N.J.

A view of some of the thousands of tulips in peak bloom at the first ever Tulip Festival in Cream Ridge New Jersey. What a glorious sight to see them.

Sun Power Tulip in Yellow

A beautiful burst of vivid yellow petals marked with light orange markings. This lovely tulip named Sun Power is a double-flowered peony-like tulip that blooms with a color mix of gold, yellow, red and orange. When first opening it is yellow and gold but turns more and more orange and red as it opens more fully. Quite a eye-catching color and size - a beauty of a tulip.

Tulips and Sky New Jersey

Fields full of tulips in every possible color in peak bloom under a blue sky and puffy white clouds. Taken at the Tulip Festival at Holland Ridge Farms in New Jersey.

Holland Ridge Farm Tulips

A stunningly beautiful scene of the tulips in bloom at Holland Ridge Farm in southern New Jersey. This is the first year of a Tulip Festival that the farm made available to the public and it was a joy to see.

Tulip Zen

A vertical format view of mesmerizing, multi-colored layers of tulips in peak bloom with a lone bicycle tucked between the layers. Take a moment and have your own provide tulip zen as thuogh you were there. Just let your eyes wander from the layer of mixed colors in the foreground and up throuh the reds. Reach the bicycle and picture yourself quietly, peacefully riding up and down the rows of yellow, oranges and pinks far into the baclground. Savor the brilliance and beauty of the colors, the scents, the gentle breeze - and there - don't you feel more soothed and relaxed now? What a joyful, uplifting place to be!

Tulip Cutting Garden and Shed

A horizontal format view of a large tulip garden filled with all vairieities of colors and shapes. Visitors to the Holland Riidge Tulip Festivalin New Jersey had the opportunity to pick tulips from this garden to take home and to make purchase of bulbs in the market shed.

Monsella Tulip Portrait

A vertical format portrait of a strikingly beautiful vibrant canary yellow tulip with red flame pattern markings named Monsella. Monsella is a double flower early blooming peony-liketulip with petals that are 4 to 5 inches wide when fully opened.

Happy Upstar Tulip Pair

A close up view of two tulips singled out of a gorgeous garden bed tightly packed with these charming pink, pale yellow and white tulips named Happy Upstar.

All that Hot Pink Jazz

A section of a tulip bed of the hot pink tulip named Jazz. Taken at the Holland Ridge Tulip Festival Show Garden in New Jersey.

Van Vleck House and Garden Landscape

The Van Vleck House and Gardens was orginally a private estate owned by Joseph VanVleck Sr. more than 140 years ago. The Italianate villa that currently stands on the estate is the last of the homes built on the property by the family. In 1993, the heirs of Van Vleck gifted the house and grounds to the Montclair Foundation that currently oversees the property. The grounds were well known for the beautiful azalea and rhododendron plants that flowered in the spring and for the wisteria that grows around the edges of the outside courtyard. The gardens are open to the public 365 days a year.

Van Vleck and Garden Landscape

A lanscape scene from the Van Vleck Gardens in Montclair New Jersey. The Van Vlleck House and Gardens was orginally a private estate owned by Joseph VanVleck Sr. The Italianate villa that currently stands on the 12 acre estate, is the last of the homes built on the property by the family. In 1993, the heirs of Van Vleck gifted the house and grounds to the Montclair Foundation that currently oversees the property. The grounds were well know for the beautiful azalea and rhododendron plants that flowered in the spring and for the wisteria that grows around the edges of the outside courtyard. The gardens are open to the public 365 days a year.

Pink Dogwood Blossoms

A close up view of several pink dogwod blossoms.

NYC-Spring Season's First Rainbow 2

A vertical format view of the midtown west side of Mahattan and Hudson River as a late afternoon thunderstorm clears out to produce a beautiful rain just at sundown time when the buildings are reflecting the sundown colors and the clouds are tinted with the rainbow colors. Just beautiful to see from across the river in New Jersey.

NYC_Spring Season's First Rainbow

A beatuful rainbow appears as a nasty, windy thunderstorm departs just at sunset time - the end result an amazing rainbow cityswcape of the NYC skyline and Hudson River..

Sundown Double Rainbow over NY and NJ

Sundown and a rainbow as a thunderstorm clears away create a color and atmospheric combination that makes the NYC skyline and the Hudson River seem to glow. Here is a view looking sourth down the Hudson River over the city of Hoboken N.J. across the river to lower Manhattan. One rainbow, still in storm haze and clouds, shows behind One World Trade Center.

NYC-Sunset Glow to Twilight

A crystal clear view of the New York skyline after a storm clears out and sundown light transforms the city skyscrapers with gold and orange hues. Skies are turning to the deep, rich blue of twilight with pink sunset clouds and the Hudson River is aglow with the building reflectsions in unusually still river waters. Where once this would be a view with the center of bocus being the Empire State Building, the skyscrapers of the new Hudson Yards Development Project now take center stage in the skyline.

Yellow Peony Portrait

A close of view of the center and petals of a fully opened yellow peony flower.