The purple maple outside my front room window is filling out with leaves. I appreciate the passage of time.
Category Archives: flowers
renewal – lilies of the valley
I took this photograph on a recent walk in downtown London, during my lunch hour. I hadn’t realized that the lilies of the valley were out. I appreciate lilies of the valley.
renewal – tulips
renewal – vinca minor
When I was a little girl, we had patches of vinca minor (the ground cover with purple flowers, above) in our yard. I didn’t know what it was really called, so I called it violets, since the flowers were purple, and I didn’t know what violets looked like.
Later I heard people calling it “myrtle,” which is one of its common names. I finally discovered that it was called vinca minor a few years ago when a landscape design student helped create a new garden at one of the properties managed by the public housing provider I work for.
I appreciate vinca minor – one of the first signs of spring, for me.
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renewal – seed pods
I took this photo on Easter Sunday, during a walk in the woods. It’s a picture of a group of dried-out thistles, shot from above.
I appreciate seeds pods.
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renewal – tree flowers
In an earlier post I wrote about how much I love the misty yellow-green that begins to surround tree limbs in the spring.
One thing I never noticed until I was an adult was that the first new green is often not leaves – it’s flowers. Maples and other trees that drop seeds or fruit blossom first before their leaves come out.
I appreciate tree flowers.
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renewal – dandelions
Dandelions are one of the first signs of spring, where I live. I used to pick them when I was little, and give the bouquets to my mother. I also braided crowns out of dandelions.
(Last night when I was walking in my neighbourhood, I thought about the book of short stories called Dandelion Wine. I read it when I was in my early 20s. I remember really liking it…)
I appreciate spring weeds.
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renewal – spring flowers
I love spring violets. I used to sing a song about them, called Le Violette.
These little guys were nestled in the roots of a tree when I was walking in my neighbourhood on Saturday.
I appreciate spring flowers.
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comfort – warmth (bonus photo)
Even though March has come to an end, I couldn’t resist adding an extra photo to this month’s comfort theme. This is a photograph of some red tulips that my flower-loving colleague brought in to work this month. (She also brought these and these.)
This was one of my favorite photos of the month, because of the gorgeous warm colours. (I shot the tulips from above, against the background of discarded cork board.) March was a warm month for me, overall.
I appreciate warm colours.
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Listen to my Cowbird.com story that uses this photo as an illustration.
primroses
I was at my parents’ briefly last night, and Mom commented that, with the recent warm weather, her primroses were looking really pretty. So we went out to their garden to look at them, and I took these photos.
All photos edited in Instagram for iPhone.
Alternate versions can be found here, here, here, here and here on my Tumblr blog.