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puddleshark ([personal profile] puddleshark) wrote2025-06-05 02:17 pm
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Roses in the rain

Roses in the Rain, the Secret Garden 11

Celebrated the return of the British summer - grey sky, rain and gales, at last! - and the acquisition of a new macro lens, by visiting the Secret Garden at Carey. Strangely, I had the rose garden entirely to myself. Just me, with my umbrella occasionally blowing inside out, and the roses uncomplaining in the wind and rain.



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Roses in the Rain, the Secret Garden 4

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I may have got a bit carried away. Really pleased with the new macro lens. So nice to have a working auto-focus again, after two years of struggling with manual focus. And it was half the price of the last macro lens I bought. Now that Canon have stopped manufacturing DSLRs and switched to mirrorless cameras, it seems there's a glut of secondhand Canon-fit DSLR lenses on the market.
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[personal profile] changeling72 2025-06-06 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, the roses are pretty! I particularly like the one in the fourth pic.

I know a group of people including someone at work are going there today. 'Nice day for it,' I thought, as I walked up the road to work in the rain...
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[personal profile] puddleshark 2025-06-06 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, the roses are always gorgeous at this time of year.

Better today than tomorrow, looking at the Met Office forecast. It does not look like garden-visiting weather tomorrow. And I hope all the visitors to Wimborne Folk Festival have their umbrellas...
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