P52 Week 15: Nature (April 9 - 15)

[Darmok N Jalad]

 

[mollyc]

Finally, figured out how to transfer from Sony A6000 to iPhone. Do it all the time with the A7r3, but not the A6000s older system. View attachment 2188024 View attachment 2188025

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From my son’s yard and grand daughter’s garden. View attachment 2188363 View attachment 2188364

You are getting more spring in CT than I anticipated! We lived in Darien for eight years, and sometimes we didn't have blooms like this until late April, early May, but overall the east coast had a relatively mild winter. Hope you are enjoying time with your family.

 

[mollyc]

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Today is the only full sun day for a while and we are taking advantage of that ☀️

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These could work for " fill the frame" too... not cherry blossoms but a kind of a non edible pear

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Some pink
and some blue and a blue heron. I have two more of the heron but I liked the sky in this one

CC 🌷

I love your enthusiam for this project and that you are even going back to previous weeks at times. 🙂

 

[mollyc]

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The colors and light in that second one are amazing. It seems you have made great friends with the Fuji.

 

[mollyc]

This gal was waiting by my front door when I got back from my evening walk. She's a bit of a tease as she was always just a shade away from posing for me. This was the best I could coax from her.
Oly Tough camera.
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I hope she doesn't eat all your plants like the deer do here. I grew up in the country and never had trouble with deer eating plants, but here in suburbia our deer population is out of balance (too many) so I have to be really careful with what goes in the garden.

 

[mollyc]

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en route to my kids' school

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springtime for the raptor

That cemetary looks lovely.

 

[mollyc]

Ok, so here's the deal. Was grocery day, so these snaps are grocery store nature... View attachment 2188469

Harris Teeter - Thur., April 13, 2023 - iPhone 13PM
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CC Always Welcome

Nothing wrong with nature indoors! 🙂

 

[mollyc]

.. some small, and more subtle views of nature and awakening to spring .. captured during early-morning walkabouts this week.

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beautiful signs of spring.

 

[_timo_redux_]

That cemetary looks lovely.

It's also an arboretum; it's spread out over terminal moraine (so, hard to develop land then, super-lovely land now) and it's extraordinary.

 

[katbel]

I love your enthusiam for this project and that you are even going back to previous weeks at times. 🙂

Thanks! What about your enthusiasm of doing 52 weeks with us 🙂 ?💖
Repetition or practice is good to keep in mind what I'm learning

 

[tizeye]

Last day in CT, leaving at 7:45 PM for direct flight to Orlando. The red ones burst out overnight and will develop into red berries.

 

[katbel]

A closer..as much as I could Blue Heron and Hellebores

 

[someoldguy]

Larry ! It's getting warm , You gotta call the pool guys ....

"Nah ... They cost too much , this year I'll do it myself"

Actually , it's the late Cora Timkin's pool . https://www.njpalisades.org/strangerWeird.html Abandoned when her and her husband died and the Parks Commission took it over . They never called the pool guys either .

Interestingly , there's lots of plantings left from the old estates around if you look a bit while hiking .

 

[kenoh]

We took a ferry ride over to Dunoon this past weekend. When there we drove North to Loch Eck, to Jubilee Point. A wonderful place to sit and reflect. There were a couple of people camping too and the smell of their campfires was intoxicating.

 

[AppleKarma]

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

The colors and light in that second one are amazing. It seems you have made great friends with the Fuji.

Yeah, it's more able to handle backlighting with better shadow recovery. I've been doing more searching for subjects with strong backlighting and see what I can get out of it in post. The lens hood is certainly beneficial on the 55-200!

 

[katbel]

Some pink and some purple
Forgot to mention
Vancouver has thousands and thousands cherry trees , different varieties
We have a blossom festival

 

[_timo_redux_]

backyard poetry reading

 

[AlixSPQR]

Finally, today, this rather delayed spring, I found a Hepatica nobilis (syn. Anemone hepatica), in Sweden called blåsippa, a traditional and very welcomed sign of spring. The grass is Elymus caninus. These grow together with other quite rare species on the location, most notably white Lathraea squamaria and Actaea spicata (but they are later). The Hepatica nobilis is growing next to a big Quercus robur. None of these, as far as I know, are native to North America, therefore I only present their scientific names.

Edit: I was wrong about the blåsippa, thanks @mollyc, this species is native to North America, its common name is roundlobe hepatica.

 

[Walhydra]

"New." Just since yesterday, out our south window, at home, Worcester, MA.

 

[Walhydra]

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Not fast enough to add to the same post🙃

CC 🌷

Excellent capture.

 

[katbel]

Background color symmetry
CC welcome

 

[oblomow]

Nature's doctor: My knee hurts.

Ok, we were actually looking for white-tailed eagles. But I needed a 900mm for that...

 

[mollyc]

 

[bondr006]

This mornings sun streaming down through the woods behind my house.

Sunday, April 16, 2023 - iPhone 13PM