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Spring Colors
This is a photo I imagined many times, but it proved much more difficult to capture (and this still does not do justice to the real thing).
People always talk about "fall colors", and they are certainly worth talking about, but there are also spring colors - at least in the north-eastern United States.
Each species of maple and all the trees that make catkins come out with their own shade of brown/red/orange/yellow/green flowers or twigs before the leaves appear, and it is just magical to watch these subtle colors take over the grays and browns of winter.
I am not sure how well it was captured in this picture, but from left to right along the far bank of the lake there is a willow (green twigs), an ornamental bush (yellow twigs), a maple (orange flowers) and another maple (red flowers). Every year, this lineup caught my attention - subtle but gorgeous!
If you walk about 50 feet left from where this picture was taken, the colors form an almost perfect gradient.
Spring Colors
This is a photo I imagined many times, but it proved much more difficult to capture (and this still does not do justice to the real thing).
People always talk about "fall colors", and they are certainly worth talking about, but there are also spring colors - at least in the north-eastern United States.
Each species of maple and all the trees that make catkins come out with their own shade of brown/red/orange/yellow/green flowers or twigs before the leaves appear, and it is just magical to watch these subtle colors take over the grays and browns of winter.
I am not sure how well it was captured in this picture, but from left to right along the far bank of the lake there is a willow (green twigs), an ornamental bush (yellow twigs), a maple (orange flowers) and another maple (red flowers). Every year, this lineup caught my attention - subtle but gorgeous!
If you walk about 50 feet left from where this picture was taken, the colors form an almost perfect gradient.