Wisconsin Turns Her Face To The Sun - Letting In Spring

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.

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.    

 Daffodils with Sun behind them.

 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! 

Creamy white petals with cold center

Crimson red out shines all else in the area it is in.

Double White daffodils with ruffled center.

White Daffodils with pink ruffled single center 

Daffodils that make you smile with their extra long pistils

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.  :)  

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.

Deer travel through the gardens on their way to the out back of our land.  They munch on tulips often as they explore the area they are going through.  This group has five in it.  Looks like the smaller ones were yearlings.  As I snapped pictures from the window of our home a stray cat that also hangs out around here came out from one of the gardens and the yearlings followed it all the way down the path to the drive.  The older deer hung back in the brush almost hard to see.  Then one of the older ones came out and went to the younger one as if to say you are out of your bounds young man now get back to the heard.  All three young ones trotted to safety back up the hill and then the heard trotted up and out of sight to the top.

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