Taken in Osterley Park

It's nearly time to plant the seeds for my own foxgloves!

Spring in Colorado

happy spring!!!

"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring."

(Bern Williams)

(taken in Cambridge, England)

random

I realize this is very far from on topic but... I absolutely love this weather icon that 9News.com uses for "cloudy" weather. It just has so much character.

Staple Inn courtyard

Which do you like better and why? They're the same set of photos, only each cropped differently. I can't decide which I like better for the first set. The second set focuses on such different views that I almost see them as completely separate photos.

This is a lovely little courtyard hidden off the street, behind theStaple Inn buildings area. Never would have found it if I didn't leave for work so early and have a knack for wandering ("getting lost").

Holborn, London WC1

Glasgow, Scotland

hey you, up in the sky, learning to fly...

You can almost reach out and touch the clouds! Oh, the happiness of mountains...

These are all from our ascent of Grays Peak.

Altering Photos

See the difference in the original (top) and then look at what "Auto Levels" does in Photoshop for the bottom picture. It seems to me to be hit or miss. Occasionally I will look at my pictures and they just don't come out with the same colours as I see them with my eyes at the time of the picture. I'll do the Auto Levels thing and it will correct it to look as it did when I snapped the picture. Other times it just completely changes it to unrealistic colours. Then on this Blogger website, sometimes my pictures change colours when I post them, or when you click for the full view, they will be drastically different. One reason why perhaps prints are a better idea. But, sadly, I rarely get prints made.

It was as if nothing wrong could happen in a world where things balanced so stilly....

(A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith)

spring on its way!

These appeared to be coming up first. Mom and I can't quite remember what they're called. We planted them back in October-ish (I think). They will be white and are "carpan"-something. Sadly, the popsicle stick we wrote the name on wore off...

Johnny Jump Up!!

Some tulips I found that are growing from under a rock!

More tulips! These we have decided are some of our established tulips, not of the bulbs we planted in the autumn. Very exciting, though, as I did not see these even two days before this. Flowers are so sneaky!

state flower

I hope My Pretties (see tag) will be this lovely this summer. I can tell they are itching to get out of the pots I have them in in the house and outside in the sun. But, not yet. In the front garden today, I discovered a Johnny Jump Up (aka Viola tricolor)! I also found some tulips coming up!!! I'll have to post those spring-is-on-its-way photos tomorrow...

24 February of last year

I miss going for multiple walks in a day around the lake, every day.

Sometimes I get so tired

Just trying to find a place

To lay my head

I look up to the sky

I feel the warmest light comfort me...

(Tyrone Wells, "More")