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Ice covered sycamore tree over the Lower Huron River after the February 22, 2023 ice storm.
Lower Huron Metropark, Wayne County, Michigan
It's said, this plane tree alley is the most beautiful road at Sao Miguel. The blue hydrangea is the emblematic flower of the Azores. It can be found everywhere, especially on Sao Miguel, Fajal, Flores, and Pico. The hydrangea was brought to the islands by sailors at the end of the 18th century and has since become naturalized there. Its blue color is caused by the acidic volcanic soil; on alkaline soil with a pH above 6, the hydrangea blossoms turn pink and red. Azoreans recognize the attractiveness of hydrangea hedges and are increasingly planting them along roadsides.
It's not as Christmassy as traditional Christmas markets but it still has its own charms. The local fire station set up tables and chairs where you could buy a plate of fresh oysters and mulled wine and sausages in a baguette. All the restaurants that are open during the winter put on special festive menus for lunchtime and lots of craftspeople have the stalls that you see. You could also take a ride around the village in a horse drawn carriage. In the evening there was an amazing fireworks show over the village.
Bande-son // Soundtrack: IDAHO ("Only Road"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muy6z6CckDE
"Trailing far back... YOUR ONLY ROAD is gone... And the fear has left you alone forever..."
Ripe fruits of an eastern sycamore will soon drop to the ground to start new lives. Autumn shades in paradise.
There is NO Planet B.
Beautiful cloudy blue sky and a American sycamore or plane tree with the whimsical fruit clusters balls a type of catkins on Duffins trail near Rotary park in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , April 7. 2022
Sycamore tree
Catkins
American Sycamore tree
Brown catkins
Fruit clusters
plane tree
Sycamore or plane tree
April 2020
Wet Duffins trail
Quail eggs
Green and white Trilliums
Round hole in ice
Mullein
woods
Sunset
Duffins Creek Trail
Discovery Bay
Duffins Creek
Trilliums in the woods
Duffins Trail
Overcast
Discovery Bay near Duffins Creek
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Bluefin tuna
Ontario
Canada
February 2022
Favourites
IPhone XR
iPhone 6s
forest
Trees
Wildflowers
March 2022
Fallen tree
Duffins Mash
Duffins trail
Trail near Duffins Marsh
Autumn
Red trilliums
Red trilliums in the woods
Beautiful blue sky
great clouds
Beautiful blue sky with great clouds
Squires beach
Blossoms
Beautiful springt tree blossoms
the clouds and blue sky
Rotary Park
Beautiful springt tree blossoms against the clouds and blue sky
Snow
Ice
Winter
Large tree
Cloudy blue sky
...looking through my archive for shots for today's collage theme Green Scene in Mosaic Montage Monday I remembered this shot of Jinks who appeared to think that we could not see him hiding in the fern leaves
...our rascally, lovable Cairn terrier, he shared our family lilfe for nearly 15 years
thank you for all visits to my photostream
Shot of a great egret (Ardea alba) sitting on a plane tree on February 11, 2023.
Frozen lake Orestiada in Kastoria, Greece.
De jolies fleurs au pied des haut platanes...
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One of the main thoroughfares running through Hyde Park normally full of cyclists, joggers and pedestrians. Apsley Gate is at the end of the walk followed by Wellington Arch in the centre of Hyde Park roundabout.
A non-HDR composition.
I have returned to my favourite, magical location, the secret little world enclosed by the lazy meanders of the river Adda just downstream the eastern arm of the lake Como (its real name being Lario), just before it begins to flow into the Padan Plain. It is a hidden gem under everyone's eyes - surrounded as it is by busy roads, towns, and productive sites, as soon as you get on the river's banks you feel like you have entered an entirely different world. I think that the wetlands nestled between the meanders have preserved the place, making it less than amenable to settlements (but very amenable to a sheer variety of birds).
At 5° C and a substantially clean sky, I would have bet on the place being very misty, as it almost always is at early morning. Luckily I didn't, since I would have lost. The air was crystal clear, the place devoid of its usual mysterious ambiance (visit my album Silent banks to get an idea). I was lucky enough that Autumn was extremely generous with its treasures, and my sunrise session was not to go wasted, after all.
I was walking downstream, almost convinced that it was time to go back home, when a couple of twin old, large plane trees captured my attention. While framing, in the most serendipitous way, I was abruptly aware of the interplay of lights and shadows that was quietly unfolding behind my back while I was walking, a perfect yin and yang of day and night at the boundary between the two opposite poles - and that golden, fiery speck of a young plane tree right at the center of the dance, set against the dark hillside. Since such light conditions can last mere minutes, I hurriedly set up my tripod to capture the drama, not caring about the grass in the foreground being decently sharp or not.
I hope that you enjoy this new post of mine and wish you a nice Sunday.
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/-0.67/0/+0.67/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Along the journey I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic, which has contributed a lot to the rendering of the trees and reflections on the right side of the framing, enhancing the light transfixing the foliage. Raw files processed with Darktable.
Here's the North Entrance to the delightful Gaasperpark on the south-eastern edge of Amsterdam. There's a nice wood here with tracks, a bridle path and cycling ways, and and also a pleasant swmming lake, deep and with clear waters. Worthwhile going any time of the year. A jaunt around the lake should take you about an hour - that is if you don't stop too often to admire nature on City's Verge or like yesterday: the Autumnal Yellows.
Back in November we had just been for a walk to the large monastery outside of the village when we stumbled upon "la source Saint Martin". It's in the middle of the photo between the two magnificent plane trees. It was only afterwards when looking at a map of where we walked that I discovered it actually had a name and over the road from it was a very large gite called 'Campagne de la Source Saint Martin'. You can't really see much from the photo to indicate it is indeed a source (we've been experiencing drought conditions in the region since last summer) but there was water coming from it. Behind me when I was taking the photo was an old derelict barn-looking building which we believe to have been a place where local people would have done their clothes washing. I took a photo of that too which no doubt will appear here at some point.
Happy Mondays all round and have a great new week ahead. :-)
I'm not sure what the story is with this strange, stunted plane tree at Kew Gardens - a plane tree old enough to have a trunk this thick at the base is usually far taller, even accounting for the large branches that have obviously been removed at the top. They don't normally taper like this either.
It was a foggy morning and mists were swirling but I walked around the Gaasperplas, one of my favorite hikes. Toward the end of my amble I spotted this pretty Robin Redbreast. It was sitting on a lichen-encrusted branch of a trimmed Plane Tree. Meanwhile the mists were lifting to a milky blue sky.
Dopo la pioggia viene il sereno
brilla in cielo l’arcobaleno.
È come un ponte imbandierato
e il sole ci passa festeggiato.
È bello guardare a naso in su
le sue bandiere rosse e blu.
Però lo si vede, questo è male
soltanto dopo il temporale.
Non sarebbe più conveniente
il temporale non farlo per niente?
Un arcobaleno senza tempesta,
questa sì che sarebbe una festa.
Sarebbe una festa per tutta la terra
fare la pace prima della guerra.
Filastrocca di Gianni Rodari