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I'm looking forward to the rebirth of the forests after this winter season. This is one of my favorite spots to wade to on the Big Quil river.
One way I check for Spring is to go to the local park and look for cherry blossoms… I found some this morning : )
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Allen's Hummingbird & Cherry Blossoms
In early spring, a narrow strip of scrub and chaparral along the Pacific Coast starts buzzing with the sights and sounds of the coppery and green Allen's Hummingbird. Males flash their brilliant reddish orange throat and put on an elaborate show for the females, swinging in pendulous arcs before climbing high into the sky and diving back down with a sharp squeal made by their tails. These early migrants mostly spend the winter in Mexico, but some stay in southern California year-round.
Male and female Allen's Hummingbirds use different habitats during the breeding season. The male sets up a territory overseeing open areas of coastal scrub or chaparral, where he perches conspicuously on exposed branches. The female visits these areas, but after mating she heads into thickets or forests to build a nest and raise the young.
The Allen's Hummingbird is a remarkably early migrant compared with most North American birds. Northbound birds may depart their wintering grounds as early as December, arriving on their breeding grounds as early as January when winter rains produce an abundance of flowers.
Like other birds, Allen's Hummingbirds use their feet to help control their body temperature. When it's cold outside they tuck their feet up against their bellies while flying, but when temperatures soar, they let their feet dangle to cool down.
The oldest recorded Allen's Hummingbird was at least 5 years 11 months old when she was captured and rereleased in California during banding operations in 2009. She had been banded in the same state in 2004.
(200-600 @ 422 mm, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO 200)
Giant Springs is formed by an opening in a part of the Madison aquifer, a vast aquifer underlying 5 U.S. States and 3 Canadian Provinces. The conduit between the mountains and the spring is the geological stratum found in parts of the northwest United States called the Madison Limestone. Although some of the underground water from the Little Belt Mountains escapes to form Giant Springs, some stays underground and continues flowing, joining sources from losing streams in the Black Hills, Big Horn Mountains and other areas. The aquifer eventually surfaces in Canada. Giant Springs has an average discharge of 242 cubic feet (6.9 m3) of water per second or 150 million gallons per day.
A row of cherry blossom trees continues for about 1 km along a small river in Fukushima prefecture. This was taken in the evening when it rains and blowing. I took the downstream direction.
此処は有名な桜並木回廊で, 観音寺川沿いに延々１㎞の桜が植わってます。観光客も多いのですが当日は小雨の肌寒いお天気だったので人出は少なかったです。下流方向を見ると, 何となく去って行く寂しさを感じます
撮影：福島県猪苗代町川桁地区 小雨 17:22
I had been waiting for spring showers for awhile now & it finally came today. I don't know what it was but I was anxiously waiting for all the rain & lightning.
Anyway, my life is getting better. Things are starting to look up and hopefully everything is gonna be alright soon. I'm really looking forward to a better life. Not to mention my birthday is in two weeks... I'm getting old.
Other good news... I recently bought a 100mm lens! This picture was taken with it and I gotta say that this lens rocks! Albeit it's manual focus and meter (we all know I got so tired of it with the 50mm), I'm looking forward to being challenged again.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Copyright© 2012 Kim Hojnacki
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Every spring, a pair of Thrashers build a nest in the front yard. I think they just enjoy watching and fussing at the cat!
Very Jurassic looking to me - the skunk cabbage leaves and ferns are lush and green, some over a meter tall. The peak of Spring!
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! Mark Twain
paint the moon 11/52 = "up"
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