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Well, what do you think folks?
Is this the last of the snow?
Isn't it gorgeous?
Warmer days are ahead,
but meanwhile, I loved this morning's beautiful snowfall!
Happy First Day of SPRING!
Spring has sprung.
I could not resist springing ahead in my story to post this photo today. This is the same colt from last year's story I've been telling.
Sony A77M2 with Sony 70-400mm
Sometimes I wonder how Mike puts up with me. I'm not exactly a "normal" wife. Not only am I generally uninterested in things like cooking and other traditional wifely arts... I spend a lot of time doing messy things that would make most "normal" people shake their heads.
Last week, I flagged down a local parks crew. They'd been out pruning the ornamental plums and cherries that make our corner of the world so pinkly magical in early spring. For years, I've been asking the dudes to tell me when and where they're pruning... so I can grab some branches before they hit the chipper.
This year I hit the motherlode.
The dudes pulled over in their truck and, when I asked for branches, handed me some clippers and told me to take whatever blooming sprigs I wanted. I looked at the clippers in dismay. "Can't I just take them all?" I asked. And the dudes pretty much just shrugged and said, "Um... yeah... sure... if you want them." So I hauled them all... a truckload of small-tree-sized blooming branches... into the back yard.
Over the weekend, I used some sprigs (along with tulips, daffodils and Dutch irises) to make a bunch of bouquets, which I placed all over the house in vases.
But the real fun started when Mike went to work, and I was free to drag said tree-sized branches into the house. (!!!) I made a huge mess, but... whoa... you should've seen my office filled with blooming branches!!! They're still here. Rather brown and dry... and shedding petals like crazy. But I'm not ready to give up on shooting their shadows yet.
So I really really appreciate that Mike obligingly turns a blind eye to the... ahem... organic matter littering the hallway, stairs, etc. As he turns an obliging blind eye to the various things I leave lying around... plastic eyeballs, doll parts, waterbloated books, hairy crab shells, huge creeping roots covered in sticky mud... etc.
In my defence, I come by this naturally. Just the other day, my mom was telling me how very tolerant my dad has become... how he rarely if ever remarks on the stuff that SHE has strewn around (I'll spare you the list, but it's frequently weird).
So... yeah. Anyway, this is one of those pics that turned out pretty much almost exactly as I'd imagined it. And it's pretty much straight from the camera (I just bumped up the contrast a bit to try to bring out the shadows a little more).
Happy first day of spring. May all your metaphorical offices be filled with metaphorical cherry blossoms.
“The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!” ― Jen Selinsky
Taken at Allan Gardens Conservatory
For your listening pleasure: 🎻 Serenade to Spring~ Secret Garden
Have a beautiful Sunday and Spring season!🌷💝 HSS!
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Hello Everyone,
When I think of spring I most often think of tulips and daffodils. I want to wish each of you a wonderful first day of Spring!
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Phoebe "Bebe" Sophia Lester would like to cordially congratulate you on the coinciding of one of the most important days of the year with the most important day of the week.
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At the Kanda shinto shrine - Kanda-myōjin (神田明神), Tokyo.
The 4th of February marked the first day of spring, risshun (立春) according to the older Japanese calendar system (based on the Chinese lunar calendar), which resulted in quite a lot of visitors at the time.
This shrine dates its roots back to 730 AD, but it has relocated a couple of times and ended up here in 1603, moved to this place by the shogun (to make place for the expanding Edo castle, though officially to guard against misfortune because of an unhappy kami). Before this, in 1309, the warrior and rebel Taira no Masakado was enshrined in the Kanda shrine as a kami. The other two deities enshrined here are Onamuchi-no-mikoto (Daikoku-sama) and Sukunahikona-no-mokoto (Ebisu-sama). The shrine was added to the Tokyo ten shrines (東京十社 - Tokyo Jissha) during the Meiji era, but the emperor hesitated to do so since Masakado had led a rebellion against the central government in Kyoto in his day. This was resolved with the kami being removed from the shrine. However he proved to be so popular that he was reinstated after the second world war.
The shrine itself, as it stands today, was built in 1934 in the Gongen style after the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 - but using concrete instead of traditional wood, which meant that it actually survived the fire bombings of the Second World War (when not much else in this area did). The shrine was very important for the warriors, and today its proximity to Akihabara has given it a bit of a special niche, selling talismans and blessings for electronic equipment (and all the usual talismans too, for good health, good luck, luck in business, etc).
Dwarf Iris (Iris Reticulata) A native of Turkey and the Caucasian Mountains , Dwarf Iris (Iris reticulata) is a four-inch tall beauty (10 cm) with grass-like leaves and a violet-blue or purple flower with yellow markings that bursts into bloom in late winter to early spring to create an effect reminiscent of butterflies hovering low to the ground.
Today is out first day of Spring.🌷
Taken at Edwards Garden
Have. a wonderful weekend everyone!💝
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Shoveling out what I hope is the end of my snow shots (I found a few more) for the season. As seen out my hotel window the morning of the 4th Nor'easter, 21 March 2018. When I took this shot it was snowing quite hard.
Another PoV zoomed in on the top part of the tree. I like the focus on the red a bit better in this as the orange leaves and the canal don't appear in the pic. also the branches fit well with the overall composition of the pic.
Sunshine on Snow! I LOVE it! The sun is our gift today! Nothing prettier to me than sun on snow! Happy Spring!
For those in the Northern Hemisphere, who are enjoying the rotation of the earth towards the season many enjoy....
Welcome to Spring!!
This morning, on the first day of spring, the sun was shining bright through the trellis on the edge of this carport. It was warm and breezy, a perfect spring day in Adelaide.
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~ Mark Twain
Today marks the official changing of the season. In the Northern Hemisphere, spring officially begins —the vernal equinox, or spring equinox.
Happy first day of spring!
~Story people~
Happy perfect purple Saturday guys ... :) Hope this one is purple enough!
Wish you all a wonderful first day of the Spring! :)
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3/20/2021 Timmerman Trail, Cayce, SC
Sony ILCE-6000, Sony E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS
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My flowers aren't blooming yet but found this shot I took a while back of these beautiful flowers pushing through an iron fence.
Here we are, it's the first day of March and the beginning of metrological spring. Given that the Easter Eggs represent a time of rebirth, we can start eating them today, or wait for the spring Equinox on March 20th. I havent done Lent since 1996!
The magnolia buds on the two trees in a local garden are beginning to show some colour, perfect for the first day of spring.
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An American Robin made good use of our bird bath, on the first day of Spring! I love wathcing the Robins bath as they really move a lot of water.
Taken yesterday, the first official day of Spring, from a 34th floor balcony of my condo building. You can see the Humber Bay Marina and the Waterfront Recreational Trail, a shared path in our neighbourhood.
Best seen large, thanks for visiting, much appreciated. May today find you healthier and happier than yesterday.
meteorological spring, day 20
The „real“ spring starts...
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meteorologischer Frühling, Tag 20
11:28h, es beginnt der „echte“ Frühling...
I saw this about a mile from my house - it was the only Tulip I saw outside so far this year - and it was on the 1st Day of Spring - how cool is that!?!