One of the missing elements this year are what I grew up calling buttercups. These flowers would normally cover much of the countryside right now. This years drought has made them almost nonexistent.
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I have never really harvested any apples from my apple trees. We live just too for south. It gets way too hot way too soon for the fruit to get any size. I usually eat a few each year, the birds eat even more. But, if for no other reason, I am glad I planted these two trees when we moved out here 15 years ago just to be able to take pictures of the flowers. I never tire of taking new photos of apple blossoms. You’ll have to forgive me…
One of my fondest memories from my childhood is the taste of that single drop of honey when you pull the base free. Every year when spring brings forth the first honeysuckle flower and the smell drifts across the yard I slip back in time to those early, carefree years…
Honeysuckles (Lonicera, pronounced /lɒˈnɪsərə/;[1] syn. Caprifolium Mill.) are arching shrubs or twining vines in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. There are about 180 species of honeysuckle, 100 of which occur in China; Europe and North America have only about 20 native species each. Widely known species include Lonicera periclymenum (European Honeysuckle or Woodbine), Lonicera japonica (Japanese Honeysuckle, White Honeysuckle, or Chinese Honeysuckle) and Lonicera sempervirens (Coral Honeysuckle, Trumpet Honeysuckle, or Woodbine Honeysuckle). Hummingbirds are attracted to these plants.
Washington and Austin Counties in Texas are famous for their Bluebonnets and their antiques…Both come together each spring when the whole area goes festival crazy.
Each spring I try to get a free day to make the drive NW into Bluebonnet Country. I do try to avoid the weekends though. Weekdays in this part of the country means when you stop in the middle of a gravel road to snap a picture you generally aren’t putting anyone out.
As the sun sinks into the west on a spring day the light on the new leaves contrasts with the freshly scrubbed blue of the sky in my backyard.
An old Jeep in a field next door, flowers blooming on a foggy morn…Any excuse to take the camera for a walk.
One of a series of shots of an old red Jeep abandoned in the field next door.