GH Nagai Photographics

Inner Garden




#10230:
We toured Buschardt Gardens in Victoria, BC in a light rain - just enough to sprinkle sparkles over all the flowers and plants..

#10123:
In the University of California botanical gardens above the football stadium in Strawberry Canyon is a tiny Japanese garden - there next to a reflecting pool is a magnificent Japanese maple, which generally is sedate and unobtrusive, but in the late fall chooses a manner of dress to best express its inner-most passions...

#10181:
A snowcovered hillside in the foothills of the Rockies south and west of Denver - we'd come to it during a peaceful walk on a narrow roadway along the side of the hill - opposite was a view through the trees of the flatlands towards Denver, and north to Boulder...

#10107a:
A canyon of old, known by the ancients, and graced by the rays of the setting sun for millenia, posed in its lavender cloak as eventide approached - and all creatures above and below readied themselves for the coming of night...

#10120:
Every day on the floor of Yosemite Valley, the Merced River runs its course through the landscape of ancient sentinels - this morning it was cloaked in an ermine wrap befitting the elegant setting...

#10145:
On the edge of the Straits of Juan de Fuca in northern Washington lies one of the portals to Canada, Port Angeles - it is sunrise and the waters are placid, the winds still, and the morning rises adorned in golden splendor...

#10316:
Flying before the wind near the anchorage of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge - the nautical equivalent of soaring...
"May six o'clock never find you alone....This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affections glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen magically along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn...."

~ Bernard DeVoto