Beauty truly is Everywhere in this World of ours.

The examples I give you in this Hub Page is but a small sampling of the pictures I have taken in my own backyard.

Helen and I live in the Myrtle Beach area of SC, and we have done most of the landscape work ourselves. And, as much as possible, we have used plants that flower, at one time or another throughout the year.

We really enjoy them when they bloom, and we can just sit on our back patio, or walk around the yard and be surprised by the varieties of color that confront us at times.

Now, don't get me wrong, we are not one of those couples who have planted row upon row of carefully planned layers of greenery that will take turns blooming throughout the year.

No, we have picked plants that we, personally like, and placed them, almost randomly in spots that we, ourselves, can enjoy them.

Helen and I love wildflowers.

You can go purchase your exotic plants if you want. But Helen and I really do get more enjoyment out of a couple of three-dollar bags of Wildflower seeds, than almost any of our other flowers in our yard.

We keep a ten-foot by six food oval of planter space, in our side yard clear every year.  We just rake it, broadcast a mixture of wildflower seeds over the dirt, and then rake the seeds into the dirt.

Everyone gets to enjoy them as they bloom one type and color after another.

An added treat for us, is the number of Bees, Butterflies, and other insects that are attracted by the flowers all during the blooming season. They are great to watch attacking the different blooms for their nectar. And they, in turn, draw all types of birds, which are great to watch.

This Ivy plant was in this pot, and on a table in our Sunroom at one time.

I neglected it I guess, and it died. Or at least I thought so.

I took the Pot, full of dirt, and some dried up brown twigs outside and placed it on a root of a tree, and I promptly forgot about it, with the intention of salvaging and reusing the Pot as another time.

Helen pointed it out to me the next year, and the Ivy had obviously recovered well!

Great Colors and shadows on this Tropical plant in our Sunroom.

I caught this one in the late evening light.

I love Palm Trees. and we have several in our yard.

What I really enjoy, along with the overall beauty of the total tree, is to walk up, when the light is right and taking a close look at the Coloring and Texture of the structure itself.

I got this shot in December, next to my house. It was a relatively cold day, and the wind was blowing pretty steady.

I walked around the house, and caught this picture with the fading Maple leaves competing with the Pampas Grass in the wind. Great Colors, that I hope you can enjoy. It really looks great when enlarged 24x36.

Sometimes, you just have to look up

You can be surprised by what you might see. Especially in the Autumn, when the leaves are going through their seasonal change in color.

I was walking into the woods, and caught this shot with the evening light shining through the trees and their leaves.

Actually, this is not my Magnolia Tree, but my neighbors.

The shot was so tempting, I just had to sneak across their yard and capture this picture, before the bud opened fully.