Happy Birthday to my friend La Route. Hope it's a fine day!

My Iris are blooming. It rained all day yesterday, but today is clear!

I have two different whites. One with an orange beard and one with yellow!

Found this Garter Snake in one of my flowers beds this morning. From the look of the lump in the middle it is clearly digesting its last meal. It was moving quite slowly as is normal when digesting. I just hope that meal was a pesky vole and not a toad! This one was about 2.5 feet long so fully grown. Also the eyes were cloudy which means it will soon shed its skin.

I love to see these in the yard as they are natures pest control! I had one as a pet when I was a kid.

Just love this one!

New York State

They always do a great job with their gardens at the Franciscan Monastery in NE Washington, DC

Spring2019 first colours over belstone common, dartmoor.

They are worth sitting down and wait till one is going to sit on the right place ;)

They always do a great job with their gardens at the Franciscan Monastery in NE Washington, DC

“The beginning is a Presence that imposes itself. The beginning is a provocation, but not to the ‘brain,’ … to our life; whatever is not a provocation to our life wastes our time and energy, and blocks us from true joy,” and therefore, in time, no longer interests us. “The educative presence is the presence of the adult as a unified person,” and this concerns everything, from teaching methodology to the environment. Indeed, if we do not reach the point at which this newness of gaze, sparked by the encounter, opens us to discover more the way to go to deal with and communicate the subject matter in a new and more fulfilled way, if we don’t reach that point, if we don’t arrive at the level of teaching methodology, we succumb to dualism.

-Disarming Beauty ESSAYS ON FAITH, TRUTH, AND FREEDOM , JULIÁN CARRÓN Foreword by Javier Prades

The Photinia Red Robin, also known as "Christmas berry 'Red Robin' (Photinia × fraseri), I have is looking marvellous as ever right now. Here you can see panicles of small white flowers with an (unknown) insect wandering around.

It's a hardy evergreen and I tend to prune it to a height of about 5 feet.

We know its Spring when the weather is mellowing and warming up... Blooming flowers and freshness in the air, birds chirping! Love Spring! Lovely beautiful Calla lily bloom basking in warm sun and the misty sea breeze.

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Spring2019, Italy

The National Wallace Monument (generally known as the Wallace Monument) is a tower standing on the shoulder of the Abbey Craig, a hilltop overlooking Stirling in Scotland. It commemorates Sir William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish hero.

Taken during my trip to Scotland, late April 2019., from Stirling Castle. Distance from my vantage point, Stirling Castle to the monument is 2.4km (1.5 miles).

(Read more about Wallace Monument on Wikipedia.)

Taken with Panasonic GX7 digital mirrorless camera and Panasonic Lumix G Vario 35‍–‍100mm F4–5.6 compact tele-zoom lens.

Adorably, this character was sitting on the fence with this insect in his beak, while calling at the same time.

Lioness at the Forth Worth Zoo. She knows what to do on a hot day- take it easy!

Do view large!