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Azalea Trail 2010 | Monday Jul 05, 2010

The Azalea Trail is one of my favorite events each year in Houston. On the first weekend in March several houses in the upscale neighborhood of River Oaks throw open their doors and invite people to peek into their homes and gardens. Bayou Bend and Rienzi, both former homes now belonging to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, also invite people into their collections and gardens. It is a weekend full of the finer things and the best part about it is the wonderful flowers.

This year because of a much colder than normal winter the azaleas, the stars of the show, were noticeably absent. They weren't quite ready to blossom, but that gave all the other flowers a chance to shine this year. Photos here include hydrangeas, roses, daffodils, paperwhite narcissus, japanese magnolias and the buds of the azaleas just coming out. It was still a wonderful event and I can't wait until next year.

Camera: Pentax MX
Flickr set: Azalea Trail 2010

Tags: azalea_trail event festival flowers houston

Galleries: Nature

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: CanoScan 8800F

Comments:

I like your new format! I would love to be one of those photographers who can pick just one image out of a group and be all mysterious about it but I'm not. I tend to like many similar images of a subject for different reasons and like being able to join them together and write about them.

Posted by Michael on July 05, 2010 at 10:00 AM CDT #

Thanks! I really think this is going to be as big a step for me as organizing by themes or moving to Pixyblog. I'm excited to see how things look a year from now.

Posted by laanba on July 07, 2010 at 09:12 PM CDT #