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White Everywhere
I finally took a few minutes to go down to the park and capture some flowering fruit tree blossoms. The trees all over town have turned white with puffs of blooms just like this shot! (Click on the...
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Seeing Some Red
The flowering crab apple trees are generally the last tree blossoms to open out in our neighborhood. We have one crab apple tree and the neighbor to the south of us has two. We are seeing some color....
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Shakespeare on Springtime
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)” ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Click on either image to open the gallery and zoom-in on the details!) Our cherry tree is...
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Magnolia Bush Blossoms About to Open
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” ― Laura...
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Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
Fresh at this time of year cannot mean much more than a walk during Springtime!
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Travel Theme Challenge: Breathe
Charlotte has flowers of many types and colors in flower beds all around the house. However, the burst of fresh yellow from the yellow rose-bush makes us both stand back and take a look every time we...
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Travel Theme Challenge: Neutral
For this challenge I walked through some recent captures with predominantly neutral colors and came up with these! The first one shows an orb-weaver spider that spun a web in our back door frame. A...
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Plans and Projects
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” ― Leo Tolstoy New geraniums are now in the planters around the back of the house. This batch sits in a rectangular planter that hangs just outside the window...
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Time for a Flashback?
We ended June with unseasonably hot weather and now we have July, after a couple of cool days, back up into the high temperature-high humidity stranglehold. So it is time to flash back to Spring. Just...
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Crab Apples
“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” ― Bill Meyer Well, these are crab apples; these are crab apples on our neighbor’s tree. And the image...
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Pollen and the Bumblebee
“Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” ― Mary Kay Ash (Click on either image to open the gallery and get a closer...
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Flashback
Just a momentary flashback to Spring… Filed under: Nature, Photography Tagged: bumblebee, flashback, flower, insect, pollen, Spring
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Looks From Early Spring
“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.” ― Sarah Dessen It is the second week in January. In eight weeks, more...
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Bright Yellow…
A couple of views from our yellow rose-bush this past Spring. Filed under: Nature, Photography Tagged: bush, flower, rose, Spring, yellow
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Starburst
A few more days of Spring weather left this week then it is back to Winter again. One of the weather stations posted actual complaints from viewers because of broadcasts forecasting the return of cold...
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First Spring Flowers 2017
Just forty miles north of us this past Saturday snow covered the ground after a very early morning snow. Meanwhile, in our front flower bed on the same Saturday morning we saw our first two Spring...
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This Is Not How It Was Supposed To Be…
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck In was inevitable that we would finally see this combination after the random mix of Winter,...
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