To my eye, irises, peonies, and roses are romantic, elegant, and mesmerizing botanical subjects and I enjoy viewing them through the camera’s lens from many different vantage points and in all kinds of lighting and weather conditions. Here now, in an admittedly late post, is a small sample of specimens in bloom that I discovered during my close-to-home vacation from mid-May to early June — when many hours were devoted to gardening and Piper care, and a few precious moments to photo walks in the neighbourhood: