My Tenth Flower Of Spring, A Furry Lavender Beauty!

            While walking the dogs this afternoon, I discovered this beautiful and fuzzy lavender beauty growing in someones flower garden just a few houses down from ours.

This is good, because, ironically, the heavy rains of the past couple of weeks destroyed all the flowers that had started to bloom!

So even though the grass is now super green and there are green tree buds and plant shoots everywhere, the flowers have to start from scratch!

I have a good feeling they will catch right up, though!

Taken in: Canada / Alberta / Calgary / Douglasdale Estates (show map)

Taken on: May 4, 2012

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Camera: NIKON COOLPIX L120, f/12.6, 1/160 sec, 18.6mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	NIKON COOLPIX L120
Aperture:	f/12.6
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	18.6mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-1 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Portrait
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
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