Baubles

Happy New Year!

Santa's elves on parade. Operation Christmas went well.

After some days it will be time to undress the Christmas tree. Now it's time to enjoy its beauty.

Participating in Mosaic Monday

and

I Heart Macro

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Christmas Rose dreams

Hellebore blooms captured in the brief moments of sunlight on a midwinter's day.

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I Heart Macro

Wordless Wednesday on Tuesday

Photo challenges

August is coming to an end and September is soon upon us. It's time to share our monthly collages at Susanna's Pieni Lintu blog.

I do like autumn, it's a time for new beginnings and change, for new ideas and inspiration. (Magazine, bottom centre: "Anna" 33-34/2015, photo: Ofer Amir)

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With this post I will participate also in Susanna's MakroTex Challenge. This week's topic is "important". So below's a selection of things that are important to me.

You can participate in MakroTex Challenge also with regular photos. I don't have a macro lens, so what you will see is only close up photography. This time, however, I tried to get closer than usually and audaciously I participate in Laura's I Heart Macro as well.

Do check out these lovely link parties!

Several of my subjects were black, grey or white and I decided to convert all the photos into black and white ones. I actually like the result. What do you think?

Wishing you a lovely September!

Flowers of early June

The weather has been almost incredibly windy in the last weeks and it has been difficult to take photos of the ever-moving plants and flowers! Above: Malus 'Makamik' in one of the serene moments.

Not far from the crabapple, there are some Spiraea plants, now blooming:

My mother cut some branches for the home. I had never noticed how pretty the small flowers are, seen from the downside!

There are beautiful wildflowers as well...

Another photo of the 'Makamik':

Many plants are finally blooming:

Osteospermum ecklonis

An Angel cultivar. It was labelled Pelargonium grandiflorum (?).

Tulipa 'Shirley'

Tulipa 'Angélique'

Participating in Mosaic Monday

at Judith's Lavender Gardening.

Participating also in...
Laura's I Heart Macro

NB
There are many lovely link parties I usually participate in,
but in these days/weeks cannot.
It wouldn't be fair because in these days I just don't have time to visit the other participants.




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Thank you for your visit!

Have a lovely new week!

Firing a broadside of... BLUE

Tuesday is the MakroTex Challenge day at Susanna's blog Pieni Lintu. This week's theme is "Blue", and I started my preparation well on time. First I scurried around in hunt for something blue at home...

As usual, most of my photos are not macros, but with some flower photos - at the bottom of this post - I participate also in Laura's beautiful I Heart Macro Challenge at her blog Shine the Divine.

A  blue post is not complete without some blue flowers and photos of a blue sky. Since there are no blue flowers yet and the blue sky has been a rarity, I have chosen some old photos.

The flowers of Campanula rotundifolia and Aquilegia vulgaris are blue, even though they may look purplish in the photos below:

Participating also in

Mosaic Monday

at Lavender Cottage Gardening.

Thank you for your visit!

Have a lovely new week!

Spring days, part 2

It's said that persistent weather patterns have become more common, and indeed, once more, cool and rainy weather has been stuck over us for weeks. Spring advances very slowly. These are my first tulip buds... they have looked like this for days and days:

Fortunately there are young leaves to admire.

Leaflets of Sorbus aucuparia are covered in grey-silvery hairs after sprouting. They look like skeins of wool:

According to Wikipedia, the young leaflets of a rowan smell like marzipan when brayed. Of course I needed to try... Well, I felt only a fresh, green smell.

The young leaves of Sorbaria look pretty:

A Spiraea is wearing her tiara...

I've learnt only recently that Rhodiola rosea is dioecious – it has separate female and male plants.

My ‘Tête-a-tête’ daffs look like this, not very happy:

Oxalis acetosella

Gavia arctica

Yes, perhaps the name of this blog should be "My Arctic Woodland Garden" or something. :) 

May should mean spring, but can you really speak of spring, if there aren't any flowers yet? 

For the mosaics of this week, I have chosen flower photos taken last year. Wild flowers blooming in early June...

... and some shopping done in a nursery.

Happy Mosaic Monday!

Thank you, Judith, for hosting!

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Participating also in

I Heart Macro

Our World Tuesday

Wordless Wednesday (on Tuesdays)

Wednesday around the World

Thank you to all the hosts!