I've taken the day off, because my favorite way to celebrate Beltaine is to wander around with my camera, enjoying all the various delights in bloom. I spent four hours doing that earlier today. I was especially entranced by the maple tree flowers with teeny, tiny seedpods starting, as well as lilacs, bluebells, and dogwoods, which are blooming ( Read more... )

In honor of the spring equinox, here are some of the flowers I have seen in bloom lately: hellebores, snowdrops, crocuses, heather, cherry trees, daffodils, tulips, hyacinth, forsythia, clematis, flowering quince, magnolia trees, camelia, dandelions, chickweed, indian plum, salmonberry, red-flowering currant, white-flowering currant, oregon grape ( ( Read more... )

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