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The trees are starting to bud, and fortunately, it appears that the forecasted snow will be further east of us. Now the leaves can make their introduction of Spring!!
Zenit (Helios) 40-2 85mm f/1,5 prime lens.
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Walk bout at Barr Lake with just a slip of a view of the walk path that goes out to the gazebo to get a closer look at the eagle nest.
This photo was taken in the fall of 2015. I was on a hiking trail outside Smiths Falls, Ontario Canada.
I took a tree for a guide - I mean
Gazing sideways, I had chosen idly...
...I walked on,
Taking my bearings from that trunk
And, as I moved, the tree moved too
Alongside, or it seemed to do...
From Tree, Charles Tomlinson
Snapped this on one of my walks. Somedays, its really beautiful right in my own back yard. Paths leading to Lake Benson, Garner, NC
When Stourhead first opened in the 1740s, a magazine described it as ‘a living work of art’. The world-famous landscape garden has at its centrepiece a magnificent lake reflecting classical temples, mystical grottoes, and rare and exotic trees, and offers a day of fresh air and discovery.
Stourhead is the best example of a garden inspired by the great landscape painters of the seveneeenth century. Ernst Gombrich suggests it should bear the signature of an Italianized French painter: Claude Lorrain (1600-82). The Stourhead garden was made by a wealthy English banker who had been buying works of art in Italy at the time he inherited the Stourhead estate. Henry Hoare II's 'Claudian' garden was made in an unusually well-proportioned valley behind the house. The Temple of Flora at Stourhead was made in 1745 and the grotto in 1748. But the key date was 1754, when the lake and the Pantheon were made. It is based on the Pantheon in Rome and the planned walk through the estate is based on the journey of Rome's legendry founder, Aeneas. The five-arched bridge was made in 1762 and the Temple of Apollo in 1765. Gothic features were added later in the century: Alfred's Tower, a Rustic Cottage and a Hermitage.The Stourhead woods were underplanted with Rhododendron ponticum after 1791 and with more exotic species in the twentieth century.
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor).
Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge.
Grayson County, Texas. 20 May 2020.
Nikon D7500. Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD.
(240mm) f/6.3 @ 1/1000 sec. ISO 720.
Female Tree Swallow perched near nest cavity. A rare breeder in North Central Texas. KN