Picture This - July's Photo Contest

Gardening Gone Wild is a great blog - one where I would spend more time browsing links and ideas if I had some time. The contributors are a "who's who" of some of my favorite folks in the gardening/photography world. I usually read this blog is quickly - I liken it to visiting a town by zooming past it on the freeway.

Since I've been on vacation for the last week, my Google Reader (blog aggregator) has been empty, and I have been sad and bored! So when this post popped up, I actually had time to read it.

Each month there is a contest in which readers post a picture on the required topic, link back to the GGW post, and hope for the best.

July's contest is flowering trees, judged by Rob Cardillo! I am a huge fan of Rob Cardillo because he collaborates with Nan Ondra, who writes some of my favorite gardening books. Rob was the photographer on Fallscaping - which left me haunted by the plant combinations and pictures!

My submission is this picture of a Western Redbud in flower I took on my birthday (March 29th) this year. My good friends gave me a Carl Zeiss 50mm lens, and this was one of the first pictures I took with it. Western Redbuds are some of my favorite trees. Maybe it's because they're in full bloom around my birthday...