Macro May 2024 - Day 22

 

Another tricky day with the rain all day long...so dashed out quickly before dinner in a break from it. Day 8's buds are opening up; the garden is full of blossom and it's so pretty.

Macro May 2024 - Day 14

 

It was tough to get a photo today; it was raining as i drove home from work, and as i walked the dog with a friend. Then it was dinner and it kept raining and getting darker as i waited for a break in the rain…that never came. Finally i ventured out trying to balance the umbrella in one hand and my, far too heavy, camera in the other. Lets just say there weren’t too many clear ones as i fought against the conditions...but here is today’s offering.

Macro May 2024 - Day 9

 

Blossom! I have never noticed before that the anthers were pink! Are they just really short lived and I've only seen them at the brown stage? Also, yes I did have to look up the name of the pink bits, i remembered from Biology MANY years ago that the whole part was a stamen but had forgotten what the end piece was called. Biology GCSE exam tomorrow for youngest...fair amount of stress around here. Just got to get through it all...

Macro May 2023 - Day 15

 

Macro May 2023 - Day 3

 

Macro May 2021 - Day 2

 

Day 2 - The trees around us are gorgeous and full of blossoms, the ground covered with their petal confetti. It’s such a short lived season but I do love it…I have many, many photos of blossom over the years and I’m sure I will never tire of them

Blossom

There are signs of spring all around. I have a two week break from work and the weather is lovely...and we have to stay at home, allowed out only once a day for exercise. There is too much time and too little to do.

Macro May 2018 - Day 18

Loving all the pretty blossom surrounding us, wherever we turn, these days.

Macro May 2018 - Day 3

Spring really is trying and they are predicting a break from the rain and some sun. All the blossoms and sunshine and we start to feel hopeful!

52 Weeks of 2013 - Week 9

I do not enjoy winter, the cold and the damp and the gloom. I know that I can no longer really complain, our winter here, compared to other states, or even countries, is incredibly mild. It is not the biting cold that I experienced with my English winters, when I would walk through the snow and come home, my eyelashes frozen and clumped together, my cheeks stinging. I no longer experience the agony of my poor frozen toes swollen and blistered from chilblains...yet I still look forward to spring. There is anticipation and longing.

I can often be found telling myself, reminding myself, yet again, this is just a season. A season of living on one income, a season of a husband in school, a home that feels too small....but I live in expectation that our spring will come. I will once again see the buds on the trees and the weights will be lifted. I would not trade these days and the challenges we at times face, for any other life. There is joy and beauty to be found each day, there are smiling and laughing children and hugs and "I love you"s and the security that comes from a best friend by my side.

Spring would not be so sweet without the preceding winter. That is how life is. We need to go through the trials and the darkness, to really appreciate when the sun breaks through. To feel the warmth on our faces, to see the flowers in bloom and feel the hope rise within us. Can we really appreciate what we have, unless we have had not?