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Ruby-throated Hummingbirds fly straight and fast but can stop instantly, hover, and adjust their position up, down, or backwards with exquisite control.
Today is the vernal equinox - the first day of spring. My Hellebores have been blooming for two months now - not waiting for the day!
Woodbine Beach, Winter Station installation, entitled, "Revolution". OCAD U.
Ben Chang, Anna Pogossyan, Amr Alzahabi, Carlos Chin, Iris Ho, Tracee Jia, Krystal Lum, Adria Maynard, Purvangi Patel, Judiette Vu
Star of Bethlehem- Ornithogalum umbellatum is a total garden thug in my yard. Popping up in the flower beds and the lawn. I have no idea how they spread so quickly. Since they come up in the flower beds, they are hard to remove without disturbing the plants I want. These are trying to take over a stand of Coreopsis by our front walk.
Yes, they are pretty but so invasive! They were here when we moved in and in 11 years I have not been able to get rid of them!
This wonderful Hellebore starts out pure white and ages to these wonderful colors. This one was a gift from a friend years ago. It starts blooming in December and continues through spring. What a delight!
Finally it seems there will be no more snow or cold weather! Our winter had a warm spell followed by unusually cold weather and many of my plants have suffered. I lost my lovely Rising Sun Redbud and it seems all of my lavender has died. Add to it all that the deer ate and it's sad but there's still a lot of beauty.
Coming into bloom now! I have 2 of these trees and this one is loaded with flowers. I'll get a picture of the tree when they fully open.
I got this little tree from a neighbor when she discovered several volunteers in her yard. I have it in a pot up on the deck so the deer can't eat it while it's still small. I have no idea which cultivar it is though there are several potential candidates. I love the red edges on the green leaves and the deep red stems.
All our other Japanese maples are red varieties so this really will stand out!
"Spring on the farm" (Kootwijkerbroek)
Canon 70D / Sigma 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM C
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I lifted, divided and replanted all my Iris two years ago. Seems I lost some that I loved and I thought this little yellow was among them, but to my surprise it came back this year!!
More rain and thunderstorms today...hope for more sun soon!!
Do view large!
That's what these Columbine reminds me of. This variety was in the yard when we bought the house. It gets to be almost 3' tall and is lovely!
The Yosemite people called Yosemite Valley Awooni or Owwoni for (gaping) “large mouth,” where the stem Awo or Owwo means “mouth” and the suffix ni means “large.” This referred to the appearance of the Yosemite Valley walls from the the village of Ahwahnee, which was located on the valley floor. The spelling used by Bunnell was “Ahwahne” and later “Ahwahnee.” The Yosemite people called themselves as Ah-wah-ne-chee, or “dwellers of Ahwahnee.” Ahwahnee originally referred to the largest and most powerful Indian village in the valley (located 1/2 mile west of Yosemite Village and south of Northside Drive), but the word also came to mean the entire valley.
is going on when our president insults our neighbor and closest ally??? Not to mention all our other allies. I try to stay away from politics here but I am appalled and ashamed by what's happening.
I hope all my Canadian friends know that the majority of us do not share the opinions of the orange menace.
Looks like the Bluebirds and Chickadees are once again fighting over one of my nest boxes. The Bluebird nests are always pine needles and the Chickadee nests have moss and soft grass. I have seen the male Bluebird hanging around the box so will watch more closely to see who prevails. One year the Chickadees actually tossed all the Bluebird eggs out on the ground and pecked them open! Even with two boxes available, they still fight over one or the other!
So at last there was an egg in the nest. The female will lay one per day until all are laid and then sit the nest. I can't wait to have more Bluebirds in the yard!!
Though it mainly hunts while wading, the Great Egret occasionally swims to capture prey or hovers (somewhat laboriously) over the water and dips for fish.
Sunset Uplight ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Spring 2018 ~ Palm Beach County ~ 4/4/18
(six more photos 'from this night' in the comments)
Crepuscular rays (more commonly known as sunbeams, sun rays,
or god rays), in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight. Their apparent convergence is a perspective effect, similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance.
The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the
Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight.