Renewal - Spring
Living Under The Frozen Tundra
Increasing - Unheard -
Our Creators Delight
Renewal
Flowers
Earth
Again
Unearthed
To Warm The Soil
Delighting
Our Eyes
Time to get that camera out and step into the warm Spring days of wonder and beauty.
Checking out each and every spot for flowers, the perfect picture, shadows, perfect light usually comes around 9:00 a. m. for about an hour, and again later in the day at 3:30-4:00 p.m. The Canon camera begins clicking left and right, sometimes hundreds of pictures at one setting.
Then bringing in the camera, loading it into the computer and then the fun begins. Picking out the good pictures and deleting many of the others.
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| Up and down the many paths searching for just the right view, adjusting the lens, holding my breath, and click. Checking the picture to see if it turned out the way I thought. Could shoot many more pictures at different settings, height, or even ground level if it is a tiny flower. |
See the shadows, its later in the day. Sun is coming from the West. Can get behind the flowers and have the sun on the opposite side. Showing a glow almost through the flower. Or using the shadows like in this picture a lovely design on the velvet fresh Spring foliage and grass. My own shadow is behind me so won't be a deterrent to the picture I am taking.
Climbing the steps that bring me from down below. Gardens, Woods, Chicken Coop and Horse Barn. Will cross our driveway, to the Garden Rooms on higher level. First is the Rock Garden.
Rock garden is ablaze with color, performed by the lovely Daffodils.
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| Daffodils with Sun behind them. |
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| Tulips are beginning to open. Minny Dwarf Iris are the first of Iris family to pop through what was once frozen soil. Bleeding hearts are a joy to discover next to the large rock. Every day brings surprises in the garden. |
Along with the beauty of Spring finely coming to Wisconsin, also comes lots of clean-up too.
Here Dick is working trying to clean out all the rubbish that has fallen into the pond since fall.
Soggy leaves, dead water plants, and maybe a dead frog.
A new time, a new era has arrived. All past happenings are behind us. Is it the earth knows how very long and patient we have been waiting for this moment that it comes to us in a great Miracle of God given new season only He can do. Colors busting with his majestic fingerprints on them.
Lovely shades of pastels, sharp bright flash of reds, soft pinks, and again green, green, green. I can't get enough of Green!
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| Creamy white petals with cold center |
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| Crimson red out shines all else in the area it is in. |
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| Double White daffodils with ruffled center. |
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| White Daffodils with pink ruffled single center |
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| Daffodils that make you smile with their extra long pistils |
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| Tulips that do not mind sharing the lime light with a Ninebark bush. |
The pond is cleaned, filled with water and the two fountains are working, One is the hands which has the Scripture saying, "The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want". and the other is an old one I got as a gift when we first built our home here, the girl is pouring water from her vase. She does not look real pleased about filling this pond up. :)
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| The girl is pouring water out from her vase into the small area. It then trickles down into the pond over stones making the loveliest soft sound, attracting birds, chipmunks, and deer. |
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| Mature deer hiding behind the brush. |
Work for the day is done,
time to have a little fun.
All work and no play
makes a crabby day.
So Give thanks to our Creator
and give blessings for more.
Enjoy, each minute as it unwinds
its good to see, and keeps us kind.
Blessings and Hope
Spring!
I Believe in Spring
I Believe in My Great God!
Kate
