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Celebrating the welcome arrival of Spring!
White Dome Geyser is a conspicuous cone-type geyser located in the Lower Geyser Basin along Firehole Lake Drive. It's 12-foot-high geyser cone is one of the largest in the park."
Geysers are rare. There are more than 300 of them in Yellowstone in the western United States—approximately half the world’s total—and about 200 on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, about 40 in New Zealand, 16 in Iceland, and 50 scattered throughout the world in many other volcanic areas.
Enjoy this first day of Spring and the beauty and bounty that comes with it. 🌺🌹
First real day of spring: 71F / 22C in the sun late afternoon. Clear sky, no wind.
Just 37F / 3C now, at 9 PM, but still.
A sign of spring is the arrival of Chipping Sparrows on Vancouver island. The Chipping Sparrows migrate south for the winter months and arrive in March through April to Vancouver Island where they set up for the breeding season.
Unlike many sparrows, which are commonly associated with grasslands communities, the Chipping Sparrow prefers open woodlands, the borders of natural forest openings, edges of rivers and lakes, and brushy, weedy fields. Its preference for nesting in the groves and open glades of coniferous forests, and for foraging in bushy open areas, suit this sparrow to human-modified habitats. The Chipping Sparrow is a common summer resident in towns and gardens and around more isolated human habitations in many parts of North America.
NOTE;
I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but I have noticed that my largest uncropped and or slightly cropped images appear soft when viewed at the large size on Flickr, yet very sharp before uploading via in Lightroom ( at 100%) and or even on my desktop. I also noticed that my more cropped images appear sharper than the large uncropped image sizes when viewed at large size on Flickr. Flickr doesn't allow 100% large view of images and so the images are obviously being compressed more so then slightly, causing more artifacts via softening of image. The larger the file size, the more compression! As a photographer I am very fussy about sharpeness and not happy my images appear much softer when viewed at the large file size due to compression. Though I have external backup drives for my images, I upload my full sized files to Flickr to use as another backup. Thankfully when downloaded back from Flickr, my images are tick tack sharp just the way I had uploaded them. Sad that they just don't show sharp when viewed at Flickr's largest size.
I think you all are going to get bombarded with some spring photos. I'll finish with my polaroids and then move on. maybe.
the rains, and it's raining again, have made for a very lush yard.
polaroid
A pic from the archives but it's so lovely to see the spring bulbs emerging now.
Have been a bit awol on Flickr recently but looking forward to catching up with everyone.
Many thanks for all the kind views, comments and faves :) As always they're very much appreciated. Have a good week everyone.
In the Southern Hemisphere, spring has gently arrived, bringing with it the peaceful beauty of blooming flowers and calm, sunny days.
Gerbera, also known as the African daisy, is native to tropical regions of Africa and has been successfully introduced to Latin American and Southeast Asian countries. This species is extensively used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers. The domesticated cultivars are primarily hybrids of Gerbera jamesonii and Gerbera viridifolia, referred to as Gerbera × hybrida.
Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Asterids
Order:Asterales
Family:Asteraceae
Subfamily:Mutisioideae
Tribe:Mutisieae
Genus:Gerbera
Thousands of cultivars exist, exhibiting significant variation in shape, size, and color, including white, yellow, orange, red, and pink. The flower-heads (capitula) range from 7 cm in diameter (Gerbera 'mini Harley') to 12 cm (Gerbera ‘Golden Serena’). The centre of the flower is sometimes black, and often the same flower can have petals of several different colours. Gerbera exhibits a bimodal blooming pattern in temperate climates, with flowering periods in late spring to early summer and late summer to early autumn. Despite being a perennial, it is cultivated as an annual in regions experiencing severe frost.
A spring snowstorm blankets the mountaintops around the Bear Lake Valley, Idaho. The is a panorama created from four photos.