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With temps warming up it was a beautiful
'Spring-like day' at Solano Lake with plenty of birds for entertainment...like this elusive Brown Creeper that I hadn't seen in quite some time.
Now we're back to rain again...lol
Thanks for your visit and comments have a wonderful weekend.
Stilll some spring snow on East Lomond as Gatehead's 47214 accelerates away from Markinch with the late running 2J58 1530 (Suns) Dundee to Edinburgh FIfeRail service.
23rd March 1986
Dear friends...thank you for all your well wishes and prayers!!
Believe me when I say....despite the sad events, much more good came from the circumstances.
I am doing fine...finally over the spring flu thing I had and have definantly come to terms with Grandmother's passing.......She had a good long life.
Much love to all of you....wish you well today and always........xoxo
P.S. trying to catch up...but taking my time as well....so please know you are NEVER forgotten
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Once again, stepping back into the past, this is one of my favorite images from 2020 brought to life with a new editing technique. I spent some time working on bringing out the colors, and the details of the image to show one of the more majestic views right alongside the Blue Ridge parkway. This scenic vista stretches out before you form the Mile High Campground on the southern most end of the parkway, giving you a glimpse into the magical world that awaits visitors, or long time residents. Sometimes it pays to stop what you’re doing, leave the hustle and bustle for a while, and just look off into sunset from atop a mountain.
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Most of these are withered already.. Nice to look back on the very first signs of spring ♡
My album of spring flowers:
Spring snowflakes in the so-called spring snowflake forest near the municipality of Ettenstatt, Franconia (Bavaria)
Some background information:
The so-called spring snowflake forest is located near the municipality of Ettenstatt in the Middle Franconian district of Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen, about 50 km (31 miles) south of the city of Nuremberg. It owes its name to the exceptionally frequent distribution of spring snowflakes that emerge there from the beginning of March to the beginning of April. In other months it just looks like an ordinary forest.
The forest is situated hillside in the Franconian Jura. It’s a high forest with deciduous trees, such as beeches, oak trees and alder trees. The reason for the many spring snowflakes in this forest is the synergy of different factors of influence. First the soggy peaty soil in the forest is very humus- and nutrient-rich. Second the trees there allow the sunbeams reach the ground in spring. And third the many wood ants in this forest spread the spring snowflake seeds as they provide very nutritive appendages for the ants.
As long ago as 1988, the forest has been declared a nature reserve. It can only be entered on marked paths and of course it is not allowed to pick the flowers. These cautionary measures are absolutely necessary to protect this natural event, because each year in early spring the forest becomes a pilgrimage site for many nature lovers from far and wide.
The spring snowflake (Leucojum vernum) is sometimes also called wild daffodil or lent lily in the English-speaking parts of the world. It is a perennial bulbous flowering plant species in the family Amaryllidaceae (the family of the daffodils). The spring snowflake is native to central Europe and parts of southern and western Europe, including Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, France, Italy, Romania, former Yugoslavia and the Ukraine. It has become naturalized in other parts of Europe, including Great Britain, the Netherlands and parts of Scandinavia, as well as in Georgia and Florida in the United States. It is usually found in damp and shady habitats, including woods, up to elevations of 1,600 m.
Leucojum vernum is twelve to 35 cm tall in flower. Its leaves, which appear at the same time as the flowers and continue to elongate during flowering, are 5 to 25 mm wide and 10 to 25 cm long, generally reaching to below the level of the flowers. The flowering stem has a small central cavity and two narrow wings. The pendant flowers appear in early spring and are usually solitary, rarely in an umbel of two. The flowers have six white tepals, each with a greenish or yellowish mark just below the tip. Each tepal is 15 to 25 mm long, while the whitish seeds are about 7 mm long.
All species of Leucojum are poisonous, as the leaves and bulbs contain the toxic alkaloids lycorine and galantamine. The latter is used for the treatment of cognitive decline in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and various other memory impairments. The spring snowflake is cultivated as an ornamental plant for its white flowers in spring. It is described as "easy to grow", either in sun or partial shade, particularly in moist soil and in grass. In 2015, the species has gained the British Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
In my area the spring snowflake is definitely one of the earliest blossoming plants, if not the earliest. It is a forerunner of the spring and if we see it, we know that spring is almost up and coming. By the way, wandering through the spring snowflake forest can be a rather filthy matter. The ground is quite swampy, the more the severer the rain- or snowfall was on the days before. Therefore one really needs sturdy shoes not to get stuck in the mud. By all means one has to be prepared for dirtying both shoes and trousers, while strolling through this nature reserve.
A Happy Easter 2018 to all of you! Have some great holidays together with your families and friends!
This is one of my favorite holga pictures, probably because it reminds me most of spring! We just returned to Indiana from spring break in Tennessee and discovered that it had snowed once again! This was a very unpleasant surprise. I can't wait for spring to come to Indiana! It always comes just a bit before summer, so there's not alot of time to enjoy it . Ah welll...
Alot of my holga pictures turned out blurry, due to lack of skill in focusing correctly. So I am only putting up the pictures that turned out alright!
Today's stunning view down the Ogwen Valley towards Tryfan from the top of Crimpiau. It's a wonderful feeling being out in these places on your last rest day before work. It was an added bonus hearing the Cuckoo singing freely on the way up.
A trail in the Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness Area within the Ottawa National Forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
One of my favourite parts of the year when the bluebells and flowers begin to bloom. This was taken half way down the Camel trail between Wadebridge and Bodmin
A good number of Trumpeters this spring around. Found another two Trumpeters at the 170 st. Landfill in the west end of Edmonton.
The Superstition mountains start the spring bloom. It is fabulous that a desert is so green and colorful. This was a windy early morning view from the famous Apache Trail.
As always, thanks so much for stopping by.
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I thought the location would fit the sunset scene better. But the high horizon made it quite difficult. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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