I continue to observe lately the little critters that chamomile ( Matricaria chamomilla) attracts with its scent. Some pictures from yesterday. A spring common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) enjoys the nectar of chamomile.

Spring Time

California State University Fullerton

I love spring time, especially the bursting out of fresh flowers and leaves. This big tree is standing in a small citypark, together with a frew friends giving a green place to be. Looking upward gives you a picture of the power of nature, creating new life every year. Amsterdam, 2017.

Again, I would like to thank everyone for your support, views, faves and comments!

"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

So much fun getting out with the dogs this morning and bird watching. Now if they would just stop chasing them all away. Flickers, downys, nuthatches - so many birds out! This Robin took the best shot of the morning, posing without any obstructions.

spring in my garden

Pirita

Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania

...before the storm

Love a good rain in early Spring. Beautiful fresh greens. Almost to the weekend!

Taken at abandoned farm on Oklahoma Backroad

Haslacher See….Fog is in the Air

spring

... in Upper Palatinate (Bavaria / Germany)

on a cold morning in spring, frozen purple moorgrass.

Spring landscape in mid May

Frühlingslandschaft MItte Mai

Spring over the bridge.

Spring Wood, Whalley, Lancashire

Spring green is such a special color

Celebrating the welcome arrival of Spring!

White Dome Geyser is a conspicuous cone-type geyser located in the Lower Geyser Basin along Firehole Lake Drive. It's 12-foot-high geyser cone is one of the largest in the park."

Geysers are rare. There are more than 300 of them in Yellowstone in the western United States—approximately half the world’s total—and about 200 on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, about 40 in New Zealand, 16 in Iceland, and 50 scattered throughout the world in many other volcanic areas.

Enjoy this first day of Spring and the beauty and bounty that comes with it. 🌺🌹

Spring cleaning for the soul. New life. New beginnings. New outlook.

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First real day of spring: 71F / 22C in the sun late afternoon. Clear sky, no wind.

Just 37F / 3C now, at 9 PM, but still.

A few random pictures of early spring flowers

Kit lens+ 10mm extension tube.

Spring

Spring is starting

A sign of spring is the arrival of Chipping Sparrows on Vancouver island. The Chipping Sparrows migrate south for the winter months and arrive in March through April to Vancouver Island where they set up for the breeding season.

Unlike many sparrows, which are commonly associated with grasslands communities, the Chipping Sparrow prefers open woodlands, the borders of natural forest openings, edges of rivers and lakes, and brushy, weedy fields. Its preference for nesting in the groves and open glades of coniferous forests, and for foraging in bushy open areas, suit this sparrow to human-modified habitats. The Chipping Sparrow is a common summer resident in towns and gardens and around more isolated human habitations in many parts of North America.

NOTE;

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but I have noticed that my largest uncropped and or slightly cropped images appear soft when viewed at the large size on Flickr, yet very sharp before uploading via in Lightroom ( at 100%) and or even on my desktop. I also noticed that my more cropped images appear sharper than the large uncropped image sizes when viewed at large size on Flickr. Flickr doesn't allow 100% large view of images and so the images are obviously being compressed more so then slightly, causing more artifacts via softening of image. The larger the file size, the more compression! As a photographer I am very fussy about sharpeness and not happy my images appear much softer when viewed at the large file size due to compression. Though I have external backup drives for my images, I upload my full sized files to Flickr to use as another backup. Thankfully when downloaded back from Flickr, my images are tick tack sharp just the way I had uploaded them. Sad that they just don't show sharp when viewed at Flickr's largest size.