Posts Tagged ‘spring’
Wood Poppy
A wood poppy from this spring:
I took this a few minutes after the fern image in my last post. It was a great morning – overcast light, not much wind. I’ve never captured the prickliness of wood poppies before. This is a pretty typical threesome, they don’t all bloom at once. Either there are buds [...]
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Foamflower
A portrait of a common wildflower in the northeast:
The spring leafing out is becoming complete. Maples are in full leaf, grass is up, the oaks are greening up. There are lots of butterfly species flying now – today I saw three species of elfin, American Lady, Spring Azure, Juvenal’s Duskywing, Pearl Crescent, American Copper, suphurs, [...]
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White hepatica
More hepatica from Ithaca, NY. This image shows the scene at shoestring level:
Just a face in the crowd of hepatica.
It warmed up this weekend in Massachusetts – more spring butterflies are in flight, including the diminutive elfins, spring azures, and other butterflies.
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Hepatica
This weekend I visited Ithaca, NY. I hit the trails at Six Mile Creek and Buttermilk Falls State Park looking for wildflowers and waterfalls. I had better luck with wildflowers than waterfalls:
The trails at Butterfmilk Falls State Park were filled with hepatica in different colors: white, pink, and blue. That was exciting or me – [...]
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Crocus abstract
Another look at a crocus, this time a petal. In this image, there’s hardly any detail, just line, light, and color:
I had to duck raindrops and wait between gusts of wind to take this – it’s been blustery around here lately.
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Starflowers
Other than witch hazel, spring wildflowers are still weeks away. Here’s a wildflower from last year, starflower (Trientalis borealis):
Starflower blooms in the deep woods, under the canopy. In my area, they are a May wildflower. Last year I found a wooded hillside with hundreds of them, and madeimages of groups of flowers like this one. [...]
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Spring yellow (Witch hazel)
Witch hazel is a shrub that blooms in early spring. The flowers are tiny tufts of yellow with ribbon-like petals. When they first flower, the petals are just a couple centimeters long.
I believe it’s a native species. In my town, someone planted it at the entrances to several conservation land sites. It’s a visual sign [...]
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Spring comes and goes
This weekend it was spring – the snow melted, the temperatures went into the 50s F, and I found snowdrops blooming. They must have come up under the snow. Iwas warm enough for the first butterflies, but when I got to a likely hilltop close to where I live, the sun went behind the clouds [...]
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Green Dreams
The season is changing, but now spring is more an expectation than an event. The redwings have been back for a month, I saw my first butterfly of the season last week (an Eastern Comma), my crocuses are up, but… the green thing isn’t happening yet. You can hear spring in the birds voices, but [...]
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Spring flowers
Bloodroot isn’t the first flower of spring – in my yard, snowdrops and crocuses come first. In the wild, I suppose the first flower I see is witch hazel, odd feathery yellow plumes on bare branches. But bloodroot is the one I watch for:
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