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Showing posts with label Spring equinox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring equinox. Show all posts

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Happy Ostara, or Spring Equinox!


More flowers from hard searching!

Yes tiny violets within the grass by our apartments!


The forsythia behind the Lakeview Center, hasn't quite popped yet (photographed Friday 3.14.25)


But my drive up Sunset Rd. gave me a couple or four groupings (3.16.25)





This was a new road for me to explore, right behind Wendy's on Saturday (when I didn't eat there)

The first attraction was this row of pear trees located behind the Comfort Inn.


There are some newer houses, some sill being built (or repaired after the storm). It is a typical winding road, and of course I turned off when some huge black truck came roaring up behind me...so I went as far as the pavement lasted, then turned around, and fortunately remembered which way to turn going back to civilization. (Well, downhill was a clue.)


These flowers caught my eye on the way uphill, but as I came down, there was this amazing archway. There's another one welcoming people to Montreat (nearby small town in the opposite direction across the valley). But I'll bet this was built by the same mason! But you can see the house behind isn't a big mansion. It does however have stone pillars between the windows, giving a good structure to the house (which show more in the second photo below)

The double arch gateway to Montreat NC (photo taken as I was leaving)


As I captured the star magnolias (I think) there was a young man walking under the arch, outside this photo. I just waved to him, and he waved back...after all, I can look like a tourist just interested in his flowers! But if I'd been a bit more courageous I'd have asked about the archway. Sorry folks.


Just a few hazy pink things, maybe quince and weeping cherry blossoms. But it could also be an early azalea, though I haven't seen any others with buds yet. Quince comes in first!





Today's quote:

Do not be afraid to start over.

PAM MUÑOZ RYAN


Today's art:


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Family album:


Kendra and Tai. Probably 2018. 


Thursday, March 20, 2014

Happy Spring everyone!

I'm kind of late.  Somehow this year spring has been such a struggle.  Maybe because the days that normally swing back and forth, and the days that are gentle, just haven't been anything like it this spring.
I'm thinking weather and seasons are going to be changing with more and more drama in the coming years.  Just my guess.

The first blush of promise that daffodils were coming...at the beginning of March.  I was so happy to see them.





Cut when freezing rain was on all the flowers for over 24 hours...March 17-18

These are troopers!  Taken March 18, 2014, and they are still beautiful on the 20th.