A garden walk

For Macro Monday this week I took a short walk around the garden looking for some unusual subjects.  And by unusual, I mean not flower blooms; I wasn't feeling so creative to do something totally off the wall. 

We have a rose bush that is starting to get get ready to explode in color.  It is a native Virginia Rose and in a week or two will be heavy with pink blooms.  But for now we have to live with the anticipation of what is to come.

Anticipation

 

 

 

In the spring time our lawn hosts hundreds of these small berry plants.  They are right at eye level for the turtles living in the yard and make a good turtle snack so we affectionately refer to them as turtleberries, although most people call them False or Indian Strawberries.  The flowers and berries are reminiscent of strawberries and they are edible but they are unrelated to the human food and do not have much of a taste.

Turtleberry (a.k.a. False Strawberry)

And our final stop is in our overgrown vegetable garden where the asparagus has moved beyond the edible stage.  But I thought the find foliage makes for a nice image.

Enjoy and be sure to stop by the other macro photographs at Lisa's Chaos.