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In my garden

Mary Harnan, Special to the Star Tribune

Amateur photographer Mary Harnan loves to take photos of the flowers in her Blaine garden as well as at the nearby Circle Pines community garden, where she volunteers.

Last update: November 6, 2007 - 3:37 PM

Amateur photographer Mary Harnan loves to take photos of the flowers in her Blaine garden as well as at the nearby Circle Pines community garden, where she volunteers.

"I've been asked to take wedding photos and I always say no. I like plants. Plants behave. People don't."

Photos of lush flowers in full-summer bloom help her make it through autumn, which she says "can be kind of depressing." But this year, she said, she "tried to look at the beauty of fall." She made an early morning visit to her plot in the community garden and snapped this photo of a frost-covered gaillardia at sunrise.

"It really is beautiful," she said. "Even the marigolds had rings of frost. It's nature's grand finale."

CONNIE NELSON

To submit photos for consideration, send no more than three uncompressed jpeg images to gardenphoto@startribune.com.