Spring is almost here. This past weekend I spotted the first spring flowers—blooming in the garden of my friend and fellow photographer Cindy Dyer. Longtime readers of this blog are well aware that I am not a gardener, but often visit the Cindy’s garden during the flower season—Cindy deliberately plants flowers that are fun to photograph.
The first crocuses that I spotted were some purplish ones that in Cindy’s front garden. These are the type of crocuses that I encounter most frequently and I associate them with the arrival of spring. When I posted a photo of one on Facebook, Cindy alerted me to the fact that several yellow ones were blooming in her backyard garden.
I don’t recall ever having seem yellow crocuses before, so I was delighted to see them. I was really awkward trying to get a shot of them, so I resorted to getting a relatively close-up shot with my 60mm macro lens.
I have also noticed clusters of cheery yellow daffodils in bloom throughout my neighborhood. Our weather is still variable, but spring is on the way. On a side note, next Sunday we begin Daylight Savings Time, yet another sign of the changing seasons. If I am not mistaken, Europeans do not change their clocks until the last Sunday in March, which is 26 March in 2023.
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Beautiful
Thanks, Tricia. Although I focus mostly on living creatures, I have a real love for flowers too, especially when I can photograph them with a macro lens, which I don’t use much during the winter months.
It’s lovely to see flower shots too, Mike.
Beautiful images! And very colorful!
Thanks, Reed. It seems like I am mostly starving for bright colors during the gray winter months, so the springtime colors always seem especially vivid. 🙂
Beautiful signs of spring and hope!
I love your extreme closeups. I can’t get that close with my phone. Beautiful.
The messengers or spring 🙂
I got some of these last year for the first time to put in my garden, I was shocked at how small the flowers were. You have photographed them really well Mike.
Oh that’s wonderful! Our spring flowers are buried under piles of snow from last week’s snowstorm…but I know they’re there, and that gives me hope!
Absolutely gorgeous
I think the yellow crocuses are my favourite, they’re such a lovely orangey-yellow and a perfect antidote to winter! That’s a really beautiful capture.