Yellow Spring

“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”… “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…” – Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Tulips

Photos taken at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in April. We were on our way to Virginia to visit my in-laws, my first time in this garden and I loved it. The tulip garden was so beautiful. A bug’s view. Impressionism :-p

A proud mama duck

Spring brings flowers and babies! The mother was crouching down and the ducklings huddling behind her. A close up of the previous photo. The one at the end was curious about me. He was so cute. A proud mother of 13 🙂

Pussy Willow

Nunca había visto éste tipo de árbol o si acaso lo he visto antes nunca le puse atención. Tomé algunas fotos y enseguida busqué información en el internet. Es un Pussy Willow y parece que en Español se llama Sauce Blanco. Según lo que he leido las flores de sauce son dioicas (cada árbol o arbusto de …

Spring fever

It’s spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!  ~Mark Twain    

Charleston, South Carolina

We went to Charleston twice this Spring. Our favorite city at driving distance from where we live. Every time we go, we enjoy walking on the pier and watching the sunset. Of course visiting the best restaurants in Charleston is our priority. We were there for a couple of minutes before the storm started, it …

More flowers

Once again in Reynolda Gardens, the temperature those days was already warm but comfortable. It has been a life lesson for me to discover many little things and details in everyday life that I ignored and didn’t appreciate. I am referring to nature but it makes me wonder about all the times I could have …

Spring 2012

I have taken hundreds of photos of flowers this year that it would be hard to share all of them in one post. The Winter of 2011 was crazy weather-wise. I was impatiently waiting for Spring to come so I could get out to practice shooting in natural light with Sabrina. Flowers are just there …