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With temps warming up it was a beautiful
'Spring-like day' at Solano Lake with plenty of birds for entertainment...like this elusive Brown Creeper that I hadn't seen in quite some time.
Now we're back to rain again...lol
Thanks for your visit and comments have a wonderful weekend.
This is the original capture that I uploaded in mono, the beauty is in the colour of this beautiful flower along with the morning light that shone through it.. Thanks for looking
Spring is coming and at the Lovinclaydolls Nursery, Babies are in Bloom!!
Each baby is 1 1/4 inch (3 cm) or smaller. They have glass bead eyes and soft mohair.
Lisa Haldeman/Lovinclaydolls
Another goal of mine this year is a get my butterfly shots to look more on the artistic side. So instead of trying to capture an extreme closeup capture and every detail I am shooting more wide open to get a better bokeh. Also trying to create more of a scene with them. So I hope I did a good job with this one. :)
I hope everyone enjoys this image! :)
Name: Greer Spring
Location: Oregon County, MO
Rank: 3
Average Flow:
Million gallons per day: 222
Cubic feet per second: 344
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Recharge Area:
Only a few successful traces have led to Greer, from the northwest near Pomona, and the south in the immediate area. Much remains to be discovered about Greer hydrology.
Interesting Information:
Greer Spring flows from two outlets 300 feet apart at the bottom of a steep ravine. The branch drops 62 feet in its 1.25 mile run to the Eleven Point River, one of the steepest gradients of a major stream in the state. The water is so powerful that boating is prohibited. The branch has been the site of two deaths, one of a boater prior to 1932 attempting to canoe the waters, and the other of Lewis Greer, son of the prominent mill builder, who was knocked to his death on the rocks of the branch during mill renovation in 1884.
Brief History:
Homesteaded by Thomas Simpson in 1845. Samuel Greer and his father purchased 40 acres in 1859, and had a mill operating in the gorge by 1860. While the younger Greer was serving with the Confederate troops, other Confederates burned the family mill. Mill was rebuilt after the war, and expanded in 1870. Because of the steep grade, oxen were trained to haul grain up and down the hill without a driver! Increasing demand for milling, but no room for further expansion forced Greer to rebuild his mill 3/4 mile away, atop the ridge, and convey power by a series of cables. Around 1900, Greer (then called Big Ozark) was thought to be the largest spring in the state. Milling ceased in 1920. Property was owned and used as a family retreat by Louis Dennig family, 1922-1988. After efforts to establish a water bottling plant, property was sold to U.S. Forest Service in 1993.
Ownership and Access:
U. S. Forest Service. Day access by hiking only along a .9 mile trail, signed on Missouri Hwy. 19. Area surrounding and including Greer Mill for exclusive use of the Dennig family until 2013, and the old trail is CLOSED.
Ruth Spring is one of the many springs located along the Suwannee River, but it's considerably more under the radar than many of its brethren. Located near Troy Springs State Park, it is accessible by land, but only to those willing to take a couple unmarked dirt roads to get there. Shown here in the midst of winter, its deep color stood out well against the red and brown backdrop.
Early flowering blossom on the tree outside my house. I was standing rather precariously on a step stool to take this, holding the thin branch in one hand and the camera in the other. It took a few attempts to nail the focus!
They start to bloom now. I very like that time of year :) It's only a pity, that it is so fleeting...
One of my favourite parts of the year when the bluebells and flowers begin to bloom. This was taken half way down the Camel trail between Wadebridge and Bodmin
Spring snowflakes in the so-called spring snowflake forest near the municipality of Ettenstatt, Franconia (Bavaria)
Some background information:
The so-called spring snowflake forest is located near the municipality of Ettenstatt in the Middle Franconian district of Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen, about 50 km (31 miles) south of the city of Nuremberg. It owes its name to the exceptionally frequent distribution of spring snowflakes that emerge there from the beginning of March to the beginning of April. In other months it just looks like an ordinary forest.
The forest is situated hillside in the Franconian Jura. It’s a high forest with deciduous trees, such as beeches, oak trees and alder trees. The reason for the many spring snowflakes in this forest is the synergy of different factors of influence. First the soggy peaty soil in the forest is very humus- and nutrient-rich. Second the trees there allow the sunbeams reach the ground in spring. And third the many wood ants in this forest spread the spring snowflake seeds as they provide very nutritive appendages for the ants.
As long ago as 1988, the forest has been declared a nature reserve. It can only be entered on marked paths and of course it is not allowed to pick the flowers. These cautionary measures are absolutely necessary to protect this natural event, because each year in early spring the forest becomes a pilgrimage site for many nature lovers from far and wide.
The spring snowflake (Leucojum vernum) is sometimes also called wild daffodil or lent lily in the English-speaking parts of the world. It is a perennial bulbous flowering plant species in the family Amaryllidaceae (the family of the daffodils). The spring snowflake is native to central Europe and parts of southern and western Europe, including Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, France, Italy, Romania, former Yugoslavia and the Ukraine. It has become naturalized in other parts of Europe, including Great Britain, the Netherlands and parts of Scandinavia, as well as in Georgia and Florida in the United States. It is usually found in damp and shady habitats, including woods, up to elevations of 1,600 m.
Leucojum vernum is twelve to 35 cm tall in flower. Its leaves, which appear at the same time as the flowers and continue to elongate during flowering, are 5 to 25 mm wide and 10 to 25 cm long, generally reaching to below the level of the flowers. The flowering stem has a small central cavity and two narrow wings. The pendant flowers appear in early spring and are usually solitary, rarely in an umbel of two. The flowers have six white tepals, each with a greenish or yellowish mark just below the tip. Each tepal is 15 to 25 mm long, while the whitish seeds are about 7 mm long.
All species of Leucojum are poisonous, as the leaves and bulbs contain the toxic alkaloids lycorine and galantamine. The latter is used for the treatment of cognitive decline in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and various other memory impairments. The spring snowflake is cultivated as an ornamental plant for its white flowers in spring. It is described as "easy to grow", either in sun or partial shade, particularly in moist soil and in grass. In 2015, the species has gained the British Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
In my area the spring snowflake is definitely one of the earliest blossoming plants, if not the earliest. It is a forerunner of the spring and if we see it, we know that spring is almost up and coming. By the way, wandering through the spring snowflake forest can be a rather filthy matter. The ground is quite swampy, the more the severer the rain- or snowfall was on the days before. Therefore one really needs sturdy shoes not to get stuck in the mud. By all means one has to be prepared for dirtying both shoes and trousers, while strolling through this nature reserve.
A Happy Easter 2018 to all of you! Have some great holidays together with your families and friends!