Spent some time in the Master Gardener Display Garden in Bellevue the other day. I didn’t have my tripod, so I tried following bees around and just not breathing while taking the photos, haha!
Then I came home and tried some different effects in PSE.

Beautiful colours to play with!
Abra, your photos of the artichoke and the metallic looking flower don’t show up when I click to open them. They show in the preview pane of my email but they won’t open up to your blog. The metallic flower looks as if it’s made of mercury. Beautiful. The other blogs, like this one, are fine.
Love, love, love this pic :-)
beautiful softness around the flowers and bee!