Perhaps it is the gray skies and a few raindrops, but the most eye catching blooms today were yellow.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
I used Topaz Studio 2 to get a painterly effect on these photos.
Color of my day: yellow
Tag Archives: spring
Hashtag Floral!!
Perfect description for today. Here is a gallery of florals from walking the dogs this morning.
Inspired by Terri of Second Wind Leisure’s Sunday Stills: Fabulous Seasonal #florals. Our rather chilly spring has kept many things blooming that would usually be about done by now, such as the daffodils and tulips. Yet the usual suspects, like the wood hyacinth, crabapple and peony are valiantly going ahead as planned. It seems like everything is blooming right now.
Also for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Species Tulips
My yard is in full bloom right now. Through the years various types of bulbs have naturalized. The pickier, more needy ones have died out. A landscape by Darwin sort of effect. I have two types of tulips that have thrived on my neglect: red Apeldoorn (I had some yellow ones but, for some reason, they all died out), and these species tulips.
This time of year it doesn’t seem fair: the bright, red Apeldoorns grab your attention. Less flamboyant than their more outgoing cousins these species tulips have a delicate beauty that deserves a second glance.
Spring Greens
Lots of colors in the flowers at this time of year, but the dominant color of spring is green. The green of new leaves emerging, but also of moss, catkins and some flowers. Here are a few spring greens from this morning’s walk for Cee’s Mid-week madness challenge: Spring Season.
Purple blooms #2
I don’t get around much so all of y purples tend to be what’s blooming in the neighborhood these days.
Oh, fiddleheads!
I love the emerging and unfurling of the ferns in spring time.
For Cee’s Midweek Madness: close-up and the Lens Artists Challenge # 146: Focusing on the details.
Purple blooms
Pink petals
Pinks in my world today for Travel Words-Life in Colour and Cee’s Flower of the Day. These are from this morning’s walk with the dogs.
Bunny bites
I do not know what this flower is. But I think of them as “bunny bites”.
When I was little my grandma had one and kept rabbits. An early memory I have is of plucking these flowers and feeding them to her rabbits, who devoured them rapidly and wanted more. Strange what sticks in one’s mind from childhood.
Every time I walk by this bush in my neighbor’s yard when it is in bloom I remember. I wonder if Grandma ever noticed that all of the flowers within reach of a four-year-old were missing.
If you know what they are called please let me know.
Just a hint of green
Spring is here technically but it’s still pretty chilly. Sunday I went out in search of signs of spring. The first spring green I found was the very healthy moss growing on the fire pit. It was spring green the color, but a very winter-y sort of growth.
From a distance there doesn’t seem to be much green in the woods.
Looking closer, I found a few brave leaves starting to emerge.
Naturally the stinging nettle was the most lush!
For Second Wind Leisure’s Sunday Stills Spring#green and Jude’s Travel Words Life in Colour.
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