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Taken while working in the garden :-)

Happy new week all.

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"The smell od moist earth & lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past & hints of the future.

Margaret Milla

late this year...

Award Tree challenge: Pink Grunge www.flickr.com/groups/awardtree/discuss/72157708827212406/

Magnified :-)

Position: This photo was taken on the coast of Antalya, Turkey.

Lilacs have started to bloom.

just a portrait

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Just love the heady smell of lilac that reaches me when I open my kitchen door at the moment :)

Apologies for being a bit behind with my commenting after a busy Easter Weekend with family. I'm very grateful for all the kind comments and favs on my recent uploads and I look forward to catching up with you all now :)

Moment captured May 24th, 2023 at American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (USA)

Happy Fence Friday

It's cold, blowing a gale and we've had showers of hailstones so back to normal British Bank Holiday weekend weather!!! Hope it's better where you are.

Many thanks for all the kind comments and faves on my images :))))

Thanks for all the kind comments and faves on my images and have a good weekend everyone :)

I was fascinated by all the lilac florets on the ground after a long hard rainfall.

When I'm not smelling the flowers, you can find me on Twitter

My lilac bush and tree bring me so much joy when they bloom. I tried to do the bush justice by shooting it on a colorful sunset. I wonder if I could have done better with this one, so any creative suggestions are more than welcome! Thanks!

Flower photography never gets old!

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Lilacs have returned to the Cowichan Valley

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The diet of the lilac-breasted roller is primarily insectivorous, consisting of ground-dwelling insects, arthropods, amphibians, and other small vertebrates.

Kruger National Park is a South African National Park and one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19,623 km2 in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km from north to south and 65 km from east to west.

South Africa, Kruger National Park

Please don't use my images without my permission. All images © Aivar Mikko.

Zenit Helios 77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8 (Зенит Гелиос 77М-4)

Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

Katavi National Park, Tanzania

The lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) is an African bird of the roller family, Coraciidae. It is widely distributed in Southern and Eastern Africa, and is a vagrant to the southern Arabian Peninsula.[1] It prefers open woodland and savanna, and it is for the most part absent from treeless places. Usually found alone or in pairs, it perches at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it can spot insects, amphibians and small birds moving about on the ground.[2] Nesting takes place in a natural hole in a tree where a clutch of 2–4 eggs are laid, and incubated by both parents, who are extremely aggressive in defence of their nest, taking on raptors and other birds. During the breeding season the male will rise to a fair height (69 to 144 metres), descending in swoops and dives,[3] while uttering harsh, discordant cries. The sexes do not differ in coloration, and juveniles lack the long tail streamers of adults.