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...and the snow melts and the cold whithers, springs arrival so brilliant and bright, reflecting in a puddle made of snow and last years autumn fallen~
I purchased this gorgeous, variegated hydrangea blossom, one that I had never seen before. I'm hoping to plant it in my garden, if the soil ever thaws!!!
This week has been an active one for the first wave of Warblers to pass through our park. The Yellow Rumped Warbler seems to lead the way every year. Our weather fluctuated between sunny warm days but then back to colder days. This little guy was floofing his feathers to keep warm. Spring buds are just visible in the branches in the background.
I spent a happy lunchtime trying to capture an early Garden Bumblebee with my new lens, but here instead is another lovely Primula, suggesting it wasn't the lens's fault I couldn't catch the Queen...
I got a disturbing message from Mother Nature today, your spring has been put on hold, please wait for the next available warm day....
After having only about an inch of snow all winter, we may get some more tonight, almost a month after this was taken....
Happy coming spring dear FRIENDS ALL ( and autumn for the other hemisphere:)
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The picturesque Alley Spring Mill that is located six miles west of Eminence, Mo on State Route 106. The present building was constructed during 1893-1894 by George Washington McCaskill as a merchant mill. It was larger than most mills in the Jacks Fork area and replaced an earlier mill on this same site that was built by 1868.
If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!" ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The water was way down the last time we hiked by the spring at Mammoth Cave,
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And more Leucojum, taken not in the dark but twilight, as I ventured out after a day of solid rain to top up the bird feeder. All the tiny raindrops on the petals look quite jewel like.
Spring is a few weeks old by now, but summer rains could still be far away. So some flowers cannot wait for that (the rain) and produce flowers from stored underground resources, like this Moraea stricta, also called Bloutulp (Blue Tulip although it is not a tulip, but of Irises family related to Freesias, Gladiolus, and Crocus. There is no energy for leaves yet, they come later,
A scene at Dow's Lake from last year's Tulip Festival. Didn't get a chance to make it down there this year:(
The blossoming of a Spring flower.
Santana -Spring Manifestations/Canto de los Flores
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