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On the way home from a Friday trip to the dentist AND a walk by the lake with Karl, I noticed a sign in a new Bigfork floral shop that said “SALE”. I had been thinking about getting some flowers to try floral macro photography. I forgot that it was the day before Valentines Day.<\/p>\n

The shop owner and her partner were madly assembling red rose arrangements. They looked at me with harried faces and I told them what I had come for, but that I could come back on Monday when things were not so hectic. They laughed and said, “No!”. They said they could use a break from roses and spent 15 minutes helping me pick 4 flowers and yacking with me about flowers, photography, winter and life in general. And regardless of the glut of red roses in the shop, I couldn’t resist buying one – the buds were beautiful.<\/p>\n

I had great fun putting two photos of the rose together for the An Abstraction<\/a> post. And the light was best on the floor so I had the help<\/em> of Bob and Karl… I love the color of the Gerber Daisy closeup which reminds me of creamsicles. But I won’t be giving up walking outside and capturing those things that I love and that are part of my life and will save the macro mostly for those things that I see and find.<\/p>\n

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I used to have fresh flowers in the house most of the time. I’m not sure when I stopped doing that, but I will start again. And, it was such fun in the flower shop. They asked me to bring prints to show them. So, although floral macro might not be my thing, I made new friends and rediscovered the pleasure of flowers in the house. <\/p>\n

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On the way home from a Friday trip to the dentist AND a walk by the lake with Karl, I noticed a sign in a new Bigfork floral shop that said “SALE”. I had been thinking about getting some flowers to try floral macro photography. I forgot that it was the day before Valentines Day. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12265,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/12265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}