Sweet violet - Viola odorata, white violet. Found in woodland in Ham Hill Country Park. An area beside the path was covered in these lovely spring flowers.

this one is TOTALLY for you! and Lydia, if it makes you feel any better about your view, my backyard is totally criss-crossed above with all kinds of power lines. How many "full view" pics have you seen me post of our yard? That's why all of my garden pics are taken close up and below the fence line. These blossom pics are taken at all kinds of strange angles I have to come up with (at full zoom) to shoot between the powerlines and cables everywhere.

Photographed during an ice storm. A view of the icy landscape surround the bay. Already the ice that had been solid the day before was melting around the edges and starting to show some dark spots.

I came upon this small patch of mulched garden and saw this.

I moved....slurl

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This slurl is a common point of “unknown”

Teleport to the garden by clicking on the sign under the guard tower

of the season

Viola odorata

A solitary tree of a Large-leaved Lime in early spring.

This tree Tilia plathyphyllos belongs to the family of the Tiliaceae. It is also known as Large-leaved Linden. Seen on a grave yard. Sommerlinde

In 2014 it is hard to invision a Feb 26th with pollin fallin from the evergreens!!! This year it probably will be 10 degrees F.

...a daffodil trumpeting spring.

I was leaving the house to go to work & it was snowing so prettily. I had to take a video.

Alexandrino park, Saint-Petersburg

Photographed with a 2MP Nikon 950 Coolpix.

Kenny's Fantasia Nectarine tree, bursting with blossoms!

Yesterday there were six monarchs in the yard, four of them were laying eggs. I checked the milkweed to find thousands of eggs and a whole lotta various sized caterpillars.

In protective custody I have thirty monarch caterpillars munching away on milkweed. Fourteen are in chrysalis stage and one has eclosed (hatched) this morning and awaits release once his wings dry.

The monarch in this image was hanging out on the pink Vinca flower then he went to the justice, salvia and finally the milkweed before I moved along. I saw my first Palamedes yesterday while I was out. I was unable to get a shot because when you chase butterflies, they fly away. Naturally, the Palamedes flew over my neighbors rooftop and did not return during my outdoor time. Perhaps it will return today.

Our winter has been very mild this year. I am thankful for that and for what seems to be an early spring. The plants are growing, birds are singing and butterflies are flitting. Of course all of that causes me to have a bit of spring fever and I desire to spend every waking moment outside.

I hope you have a sensational Sunday, happy snapping.

Dwarf japanese cedar

河津桜　　川崎市

We have been having incredibly warm weather this past week. I worry about animals and plants being tricked into coming out of dormancy too soon. I was able to make a quick trip up into the foothills this past week and was surprised to see several species of butterfly already flying around. I don't know what species these butterflies are but they were very pretty and amazingly leaf-like. The second one was especially pretty and I don't remember seeing that type before. So any Id help is appreciated. These were found in Morgan County, Utah

at Tower Hill Botanic Garden

Leica M (Type 240), Summicron 50/2.

Sweet violet - Viola odorata one of the wild flowers that management of Witcombe Valley is encouraging to return, it grows in woodland edges and I found an east facing bank covered in these flowers under trees in the park.

So many signs of spring during Sunday’s outings: the return of great blue herons to their local rookery, the territorial calls of male red-winged blackbirds, more cool (i.e. not mallards!) migrating quackers moving through, and this splendid emergence of color! Skunk cabbage is the first plant to bloom in Minnesota and can be spotted as early as late February. It generates its own heat, melting the surrounding snow. The red spathe seen here will open to reveal a yellow bloom whose stink attracts flies for pollination.

You don't see a 140-year-old camellia everyday, this Camellia Japonica at the National Arboretum has been in training since 1876

Cleveland Park, DC

I took the paper house with me when I went to Missouri on a road trip.

52/366 pictures in 2020

Early Spring - Our Daily Challenge

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Our garden helpers planning ahead for the coming season.

Bastian (mixed breed) & Dushara Tatters and Rags (Somali cat), 18.01.2018.

Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera

Viewed from the old toll bridge at Whitney-on-Wye, the River Wye just shy of the Welsh border in early spring.

Spring is coming this Canola plant captured in a Dorset field emphasising the height of this one growing up faster than the others near by, also placement of the main canola plant in the centre was deliberate...

Using my older Sony and the long telephoto for this one.

Flickr having fun with this one as it would not display the right way up hopefully now corrected!!

There is also an insect if yo can spot it walking along the stem of the main Canola plant!!!

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Tenleytown, DC

Country folk in the West Country have noticed that the flowering of the blackthorns in the early Spring, often coincides with a return to colder weather, hence the adopting of the name, “blackthorn Winter”.

Messy, scraggly forms of nature on Earth Day 2018.

Wet ground after the rain . . .