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Minnesota Wildflowers

Here in St. Paul we have many large and small city parks. I am finding wildflowers in them and started taking pictures of them. I ended up with so many pictures that I started a Minnesota wildflower blog. When I find pictures of flowers online often they are not labeled, or if they are they are labeled with the wrong name or simply called "yellow flower". I ended up buying a book about local wildflowers so that I can identify more of them. I found some resources on the Internet for identifying flowers and included links in the sidebar of my blog.

The Minnesota wildflower blog is just a way of publishing and labeling the photos. I noticed that it started getting traffic from google immediately. The traffic is coming from people like me who are trying to identify flowers. The blog is just a hobby and more of a web site than a blog. When I have a picture I post.

Blue Vervain

Black eyed susan

Butterfly weed

Posted by Teresa Boardman on 07/31/2008 06:58 AM

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21 Comments on Minnesota Wildflowers

JUL

2008

Hi Teresa, beautiful as always. I have a quick camera question?

The last two mornings we have had RED sunrises. Both times I have tried to shoot them, they turn out white with the sky red, but that is not the true picture. I shot it is scene mode and the automatic mode, any suggestions to get the RED sun?

Missy I have had that problem too, it usually has to do with too much contrast in the photo. The only thing I can think of is to change what you have the camera focused on. Maybe try something in the foreground and get the red sunrise in the background.

The wildflower blog is a great idea, a useful resource for many and a fun thing for you to do. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us. I have never been to your area of the country and its great to have a blog to see the wildflowers, I live about 4 miles to the LadyBird Johnson Wildflower Center here in Austin Texas so I enjoyed your blog alot.

Teresa - Great idea. I love taking wildflower walks especially in the spring. What kind of camera are you using? At the moment I only have a point and shoot digital camera and am considering making a step up. I used to do a lot of black and white photography and particularly loved working in the darkroom.

Teresa, that's a beautiful hobby you have! I'm shooting a lot of wildfowers on Cape Cod while I'm on vacation. I have no clue what they are, but they sure are pretty!

Pam - these were takne with the Canon Rebel XT, a low end DLSR camera. Think I used my 50mm lens. Looks like it anyway.

What a nice idea most everyone loves flowers.

Teresa--Beautiful flowers and photos! There is a wildflower garden surrounding the baseball fields in White Bear Township along 35E. Easy maintenance for the city and beauty for everyone else. Win-Win situation.

I simply love your photos...almost as much as I love flowers so this new sight is perfect for the likes of me. In NC they grow wild flowers along the Interstates...in the springtime it is just amazingly beautiful. Another reason why I don't miss California.

Teresa, you take fantastic photos.

Very nice pictures and thanks for sharing with us and hopefully I will get it out of my camera soon.

Thanks guys, you all know I love to take them.

Teresa, absolutely gorgeous photos!!!!!

Teresa, Beautiful flowers and pictures. You have an unbelievable talent. Looking forward to more of your photos.

Now we can call them by their proper names... thanks for the name tags, gorgeous pics!

AUG

2008

Native wildflowers are the most logical thing to put in your garden - if it is a local plant, it is drought tolerant!!!!!!!!!

AUG

2008

Gorgeous pictures Teresa. Really like the blue vervain. Great way to learn.

AUG

2008

These photos are just spectacular. And, I want you to know that I have included a thank you to you....on my most recent blog about milestones. You are terrific. Thank for sharing your vision!

Hi Teresa...I've been on here for a couple of hours this evening reading posts and commenting. All of a sudden I felt like looking at photos.

I came right here.

Thank you.

Kate

AUG

2008

Teresa - Very nice post and your photos are great. Being born and raised in Minnesota, I miss all the green grass and flowers.

AUG

2008

Hi Teresa,

It's been a long time since I stopped by to say hello! Love your flowers. You know I'm a bit of an admirer of flowers as it's my second love next to real estate. Oops! My third, I should say since Bob is my first and real estate my second. :) You gave me an idea to re-post my flower show! Thanks!

Lisa

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