Garden Flowers

Hey Everyone, Aubrey's been scanning!

Right when I got my first scanner, I got right to work doing something I've always wanted to do: make beautiful computer graphics from real flowers out of the garden. I started this collection when I was still living in California... first at our house there, and later at my family's mobile home in California, which we moved to just a few months before Steve and I got married and I moved (again) to Virginia. Just recently I have added a few flowers from Virgina. If you want to use these anywhere, feel free, I'd be flattered :).

Primula

Dahlia

I love the one on the far left. Isn't it awesome? It looks 3-D! The one on the right wasn't from our family garden -- I picked it off of a bouquet a neighbor gave my mom for her birthday.

Narcissus?

Chrysanthemum 'Spoonbill'

Chrysanthemum Leuceum
(Ox-Eye Daisy)

The one on the left is from some flowers my mom bought for the front of the new mobile home. The chrysanthemum is from a bouquet my aunt sent the family as a house warming present. The one on the right I picked from amongst a whole bunch of them growing in the grass at West Valley. It is sort of like a souvenir to remember my first year of college.

Viola

Some flowers from around the apartment complex where Steve and I live, and a four-leaf clover I found at the bus stop.

Ranuculus
(Buttercup)

Clintonia
virginium

Cornus
'Florida'

Gloxinia

Coreopsis

These are just some springtime flowers I found around various places.

Hydrangea

Forsythia

Chicory

Vinca
(Periwinkle)

I learned a new technique: to flatten the petals of curly flowers carefully with my fingers, instead of letting the scanner lid indiscrimatley squish them. Makes a big difference!

Myostis
(Forget-Me-Not)

Bluet

Some tiny flowers for your enjoyment :) They make cute bullets for webpages.

Lilium Aurelian

Trilium Alba

All I can say about these two is: Wow! Knock your socks off! Especially the one on the right.

The Special Garden Section
All the flowers below are from the container garden I have been raising on our balcony this summer and last summer. I am especially proud of them because I grew them myself :). It was so hard to pick the blooms off my lovely plants, but this way so many more people can enjoy their beauty, and it will last forever.

Summer 1999