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I've written about this park before.
Some of you may even have seen photos of this place.
Well, I told some of you that I would be putting up more photos of this place, and here are some photos of the place that I took this morning. Some of you may remember me saying that this park is absolutely gorgeous when the leaves turn in autumn. I'll take pictures of that, too.




Ready for the photos? Shall we get started?


Oh and btw, in the description section of this post, I wrote that I need "help with identifying some of these flowers". Well, I lied. I need help in identifying all of them. Thanks in advance for your help. :D




Right. The photos...




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The sun looks HUGE, dunnit? It could be my crappy camera. I am using the camera on my cellular phone, after all. :p






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The armada of clouds set sail across the lake, soon to be laden with rain.






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Now only if I knew how to lay these photos next to each other... Then I'd have quite the panoramic view...






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What the...? Doesn't this photo make it look like I live on an island or something? Like... Gilligan's Island, maybe?






Okay, so here come the flowers... Flower #1. I tried to catch the sunlight in its petals, which resembled a cup.


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Anyone know what these are called? Don't feel bad if you don't... There are a lot more different kinds of flowers I took photos of and I don't know what any of them are... I jes' know they purdy...






This one I call, flower #2. :)


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They came out all blurry and stuff(crappy camera), but the flowers are very small and are all bunched up together at the top.






This flower, I call, flower #3. Three different flowers, but I think they are all the same kind.


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These flowers grew on plants almost as tall as me. These flowers looked at me straight in the eyes.






This next flower(#4)... Is it a radioactive flower? It almost looks like I cut out the flower and just left the outline, dunnit? The sun was bright this morning.


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Flower #3, I think.


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Flower #5. It came out kinda blurry, but it's a different flower than flower #4.


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Flower #6. Or is it #4? I don't know... I don't think so... I do know that flower #4 had a purplish hue to them, but these(which weren't open yet) had a yellowish hue to them.


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FLower #7. Or is it just flower #3 in a different colour? A rose by any other name? Or this flower by any other colour?


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Now we get to the pretty flowers. Here's #8, whatever they are....


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These came out a little blurry too, though...






#9.


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A bed of #8s, I think.


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One that I particularly liked... Just loved the colour on this one. #8, I think...


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Found this little bouquet of pretties(#10) in the bed of #8s.


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#3? or no #3?


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Some photos of the park. Dunnit look like a rainforest or something?


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This is a tree that I particularly like. There's a bench next to it for me to sit on, too. Look out into the lake...


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An another angle of the tree...


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The perfect spot of grass and clovers for a little picnic, don't you think?


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Will I find a four leaf clover in there somewhere?


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Thanks for scrolling this far down. We're almost done. Just a couple more pictures and that's it. :)






Just a few more of the park.


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Lastly, a few photos of the park bench itself, the one that I like to sit on, looking into the waters and the sky...


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Notice the bottle of Mt. Dew in the second photo? Yup. That's how we roll.






The last photo for this post. If you look closely, you can see a thread of a spider's web shining in the sunlight. I had to post the photo full size for you to see it.


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This concludes the summer photo set of my park.




Thanks for stopping in,




Grape.

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Comments

  • botoni said on Aug 08, 2008....

    Beautiful pics of a beautiful park Grape.

    The # 9 is a lily.

    The # 8 including the one you like are petunias.

    The # 10 is an hydrangia.

    Or at least thats my guess.  I'm certainly no horitculturalist.  Hydrangias are high on my list of favorites and the darn things wont grow where I live.

  • secretlife said on Aug 08, 2008....

    i think #2 is queen anne's lace.....and i agree with botoni on the others he knew.

    your park is beautiful, and that first picture of the sunrise......really really beautiful!

  • gingersoul said on Aug 08, 2008....
    Bottie.......yes...i agree with you...those are the flowers i was talking about....

    And like Secret said.....i just love the first picture...so beautiful.....those clouds and those gentle waves.....that sand....

    Grape......really......I still cant believe its only  a lake....it reminds me so much of one of my country's beaches.......

    Are you sure you weren't in Italy too?........;-)
  • GrapeKoolaid said on Aug 08, 2008....
    bot:  Thanks for taking a peek.  It's my little sanctuary.  Just wanted to share a little bit of peace with you.  That view, coupled with the repetitive noise of the waves crashing on the shore...  It's very calming and placid.  I go there to unwind, recharge, freshen up, spiritually speaking. :)

    Thanks for the info on the flowers.  Petunias and lilies...  I jes' know they purdy.  :D

    secret:  Queen Anne's lace...  So cool...  You could see that, blurry photos and all, huh?  Glad you liked the photos.  I'll try to put more up.  :)

    ginger:  Glad you liked the photos, lady.  No Italy.  Gilligan's isle.  :)



  • Zayda said on Aug 08, 2008....
    More specifically, #9 is a daylily. They are called daylilies because their blooms last for a day and are quickly replaced by pods and other buds to bloom. (I posted a bunch of daylily and asiatic lily pictures from my flower beds last summer if you want to compare the way they look.)

    Botoni is right about the others he identified.

    #7 and #3 are both an African Daisy.

    #8 looks like some type of rose, perhaps a cabbage rose, but I can't tell entirely from that picture.



    Grape:  The park is gorgeous.  I love the very first picture of the sun.  The beach and pier area look so peaceful.



  • beyondtheveil said on Aug 08, 2008....
    grape- The first two pics were excellent. But I kept going back to the 'rainforest'. I have an affinity for trees. In this park, I have the feeling I'd spend a lot of time in the rainforest. 
  • wombat said on Aug 09, 2008....
    I don't know much about flowers, but all these are beautiful photos.  Thanks for the tour of your park and I wish I could be there for the day......
  • hotaka said on Aug 09, 2008....
    Well, it seems people have already named the flowers I know: daylily, petunia, hydrangea, African daisy (I actually only knew it was a daisy and in the aster family). Two is blurry because the flowers moved in the breeze and the camera recorded the shot at a slower shutter speed because of the shaded lighting. It looks like a cow parsnip, same as flower five. I am not totally certain but I think they are called Angelica pubescens or they just might be similar. I am a little concerned about all those vines. They are not kudzu I hope. Those things totally take over and smother everything else given the chance.

    The lake looks really big. It's not one of the Great Lakes, is it? It should be awesome in winter if it is. I know a guy who shoots incredible lake shots in the cold cold winter.
  • RollingC said on Aug 09, 2008....
    Nice pics Grape.... beautiful park also...looks very serene.  I'm glad that everyone else could help you out with the flowers as I didn't know what their names are.
    Is that anywhere near the Great Lakes? as that's an awfully big lake by the way.
    Nice post.   :^)
    Rc
  • skald said on Aug 09, 2008....
    What stunning photos especially the first two and the tree photos. I absolutely love them.  
  • Alyss said on Aug 09, 2008....
    Beautiful photographs dear Grape. I am happy for you that you have such a wonderful place to sit and think. =)
  • Lucytorial said on Aug 09, 2008....
    That part is something~ wow, I'd love to sit there for a whole day, watching clouds, talking, twirling blades of grass, warming myself under the sun and just lolling about.  Very nice Mr Kool.. thanks for letting us visit!
  • GrapeKoolaid said on Aug 09, 2008....
    Zee:  A daylily, huh?  Does that mean it won't be there when I go back there?  [/sad]  Such a pretty flower, too...  :(  Everything's so fleeting!!!  Oh well...  At least I got a nice photo of it. :)

    Glad you liked the photos Zee.  The place is nice and secluded.  You do get joggers and the neighborhood people walk by once in a while, but it's very quiet there most of the day. 

    btv:  There's a little path at the top of the hill that leads out to the rest of the neighborhood.  It's a dense, thick woods.  When I walk on it, blumbering through with my boots, sometimes I feel like a redcoat hunting for revolutionaries walking into an ambush.  Or something like that.  An old (familiar?) feeling, if you will. 

    wombie:  I only know the flowers as "Aww....  Purdy!" and "Smells good" and "the purple one".  :D  I really need to come here more often.  I've only been there a handful of times this summer. 

    Wait till the leaves turn colour in the fall.  I'll post photos of this place then.  You'll love it. 

    hotaka:  They're not vines.  They are just the branches covered (I mean, absolutely covered) in leaves.  Crazy, innit?  At least I don't think they're vines...  I've seen photos of what happens to areas infested with kudzu.  Scary stuff, that... 

    RC:  The lake you see in the photo is "The Lake" according to people around here.  It's Lake Michigan.  I wouldn't eat anything that's caught from this lake, though.  There are other lakes around here for that.  Living near the Great Lakes is interesting(as I'm sure the other residents of the Great Lake states can testify).  That huge body of water does crazy things to the weather.  :)

    skald:  Thank you.  I appreciate your lovely photos all the time and I thought this was just a little way for me to share with you as well.  Central United States has a beauty particular to its own, don't you think?  Not like Iceland at all, but both beautiful in their own way.  :)

    Alyss:  Always a pleasure to share with you.  A place of respite, reflection and relaxation is very important indeed.  I go to the park to escape the white noise of the city and the hectic pace that is my life.  When I go there, time just seems to stop and I stand around skipping rocks and taking pictures. 

    I also write messages in the sand.  Sometimes I leave the messages for the next series of joggers to pass by them, and sometimes the waves carry them out to the lake....

    Lucy:  You forgot the picnic basket, and a blanket.  Some chewy bread, spinach dip, fresh onions, game sausage, olives, tomatoes, garlic, some cheese, a nice bottle of wine... 

    I just have to make sure to wait a half an hour before going into the lake, though. 

    Oh and the lake water is FREEZING!!!

    [[[[burr]]]]


  • wombat said on Aug 09, 2008....
    Grape:  You really should.....
  • Zayda said on Aug 10, 2008....
    Grape: No, it doesn't necessarily mean the flower won't be there when you go back. Daylilies flower until early September (most of them anyway); but each individual bloom on the daylily lasts only one day. So, they bloom quite frequently throughout their blooming cycle in the summers.

    Other flowers will bloom and those blooms will last for a week or sometimes longer before they fade and fall off. The daylily just has a short bloom cycle for the individual blooms on the plant.

    It does look a great place to go for a walk and to go running. I would love to go run along the beach there! 
  • Lucytorial said on Aug 12, 2008....

    Well I already ate that stuff so figured that if a nice lay down in the afternoon would suffice then I'd do that.. maybe fall asleep and start snoring while people passed by.

     

    now if you're going to go for a dip make sure you have some thick pants on... and a sock... if its that cold you may need extra protection! te he he hee

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