Favorite photos of 2014

In January I like to show you what photos I think are best from the past year. It's not a list of my favorite posts of the past year -- that comes on my anniversary in March -- but it is a gallery of the photos I'm most proud of.

January 2013: the frozen pond can be so pretty

If you see something that you particularly like but don't remember reading about, use the "archives" listing on the right of this blog to browse for it. Links to previous "best photo" posts at the end of this post. Enjoy!

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January 2013: very cold, a foot of snow

January 2013: my vintage labeler

February 2013: wonderful shades of brown

February 2013: more brown, looking great with blue skies

February 2013: small cactus survivor

March 2013: sunset in Savannah, Georgia

March 2013: so many goldfish in the pond!

March 2013: lots of dead bamboo, still pretty

April 2013: "non-hardy" vine awakes

April 2013: peony shoots emerge

May 2013: A heron visits the pond

May 2013: bamboo shoots

May 2013: ants visit peony buds

May 2013: Echium russicum

May 2013: allium bloom

June 2013: baby mantises on a pipe

June 2013: dewy jade plant leaves

July 2013: my neighbor brings me a bug

July 2013: roses in Portland

July 2013: Queen of the Prairie bloom

July 2013: newt in Portland, OR garden

July 2013: grass seeds against sky

July 2013: water splashes make art

August 2013: smiling "green eyes" bloom

August 2013: wet papyrus flowers

August 2013 (taken in July): garden sculpture in Portland

September 2013: Pennisetum 'Vertigo'

September 2013: Maypop bloom

September 2013: Talinum paniculatum

October 2013: stink bug nymph

October 2013: mushroom cross-section

October 2013: Bald cypress over bamboo

November 2013: Papyrus catches leaves

November 2013: curry plant so blue

December 2013: female house sparrow posing

I hope you enjoy my photos as much as I do taking them! (If so, I hope I can keep satisfying your visual appetites in 2015!)


Favorite Photos of 2013
(I didn't do a favorite photos post for 2012 for some reason)
Favorite Photos of 2011

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