After a full day of trying, Babs and I were finally able to get her email on my server. Actually, on Miss Sadie’s server–mine remains recalcitrant. We would have done better to have breakfast at Sonny’s and trade a glossy print of the photo, as in the Olden Daze–and don’t think we weren’t about to try that. Herewith, your Babs Young photo for this particularly lovely week!
Babs writes: I made a trip over to Lavender Hill Farm near Boyne City today. It is pretty spectacular. They are about to harvest the crop and the rows that are green have been harvested. However before that all happens I was very fortunate to find plein air artist Bill Hosner doing a pastel of the farm. He is from Traverse and his work is very well known. He was waiting for the light to change some to capture exactly what he wanted.
Sooooo . . . while Bill waited for exactly what he wanted, Babs captured exactly what she wanted, and aren’t we the lucky ones! Worth waiting for I think. Now, Mr. Gaylord, about my email problems . . .
Every week photographer Babs Young captures moments in northern Michigan, and every week she sends one to Torch Lake Views just for you. You can find more of her photos at the Babs Young Photo Archives and on her Blue Heaven Flickr photostream.
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Carsten
July 13, 2010
This is a good image. Well composed and very descriptive.
If we also had the smell of lavenders….
Gerry
July 13, 2010
I feel like a gallery owner whose walls are graced with particularly fine work. Blessed. I’m blessed.
And you want fragrance too?!?
Look at it this way. You have to imagine the lavender, but you are free of the Pong of the Cowboy. (Katy Newman discovered “pong” in the NYT crossword and made me a present of it. Then you handed me the perfect opportunity to use it, Carsten. Blessed. I’m blessed.)
Carsten
July 13, 2010
This kind of word ping-pong is in fine balance. Maybe the Cowboy needs some ‘Ping’ to compensate some of the ‘Pong’?
Katherine
July 13, 2010
Very cool photo. Never been there, We’ll have to go sometime.
Gerry
July 13, 2010
I am thinking I must go soon, before all the lavender has been harvested. Maybe this afternoon, if I get all my other work done.
P.j. grath
July 13, 2010
Unusual perspective on a lavender field, seeing it as a complete, tilted, distant rectangle of color. I wonder how many happy bees are at work there.
Tip for those who want to grow lavender at home: Do not overwater. Do not irrigate. It likes to be dry.
Gerry
July 13, 2010
I love the composition of the photo too–and the story it tells.
It occurs to me that a person might be able to grow lavender on some of the dry, scrubby sand east of here. Wouldn’t that be a sight?
Babs Young
July 13, 2010
The bees there are very happy. As you stand next to the rows all you can hear is the hum of the bees.
Gerry
July 13, 2010
Ahh . . . lavender honey.
Katy
July 13, 2010
Something about this reminds me of Norman Rockwell’s Triple Self Portrait..Magnificent photo..Katy
Gerry
July 13, 2010
It reminds me of a storybook I had with a mother on the cover, reading a storybook to a child, with a mother on the cover . . . I love the photo too. And there may be more images of the lavender farm to come. We shall see.
Anna
July 15, 2010
What a fabulous photo! Now that is art, creating out in the air. I wonder how the scents were with the lavender fields. I really, really like this!
Gerry
July 15, 2010
Thank you, Anna – I think, too, that it’s one of the best Babs has done, which is saying a great deal indeed.