Gladiola

We enjoyed a lovely quiet day today in this wonderful weather. The gladioli have begun to bloom in my sadly neglected garden. They are very pretty but are flopping onto the ground. I followed the package directions when I planted the bulbs, but I think they must need to be planted deeper in the ground to stand upright. 
This is a 5 layer focus stack. I used the strobe to create the invisible black backdrop. 
Yesterday I found out that when I deleted files to clear the scratch disc, I accidentally deleted the preview folder in LR. I had to uninstall the program and then reinstall it.