White Spring

Spring Snow

I don't think our St. Patrick's Day snow will hang around for long.  It will be replaced soon by other things.  I'm using up most of what I have to say on my three classes so this blog has been pretty quiet.  I expect that will continue into May when, perhaps, I will find more to say.  It's been a bit slow on the images as well this year.  My birding project has me taking a lot of shots that aren't good enough for the blog so today I decided to stop over at Scott Arboretum to take some pictures of the small flowers beginning to emerge.

Spring

I finally got my new 300mm lens but it was too dark and rainy to get any good bird shots.  The good news is that it works and I should be back in business, so to speak.  In the mean time, some flowers.

Spring

An Exciting Time of Year

Pileated Woodpecker in my backyard

House Sparrow at the studio

Turkeys strutting under the bird feeder at Heinz

Pine Warbler in the woods

None of these photos is perfect but I like what I see in them.  This really is a fun time of year.

Flowering in the Wild

One of my favorite things about this area is the abundance of items flowering in the wild. This spring has been quite brilliantly colored. Driving through neighborhoods azaleas burst with unlikely colors, competing with the equally intense flowering trees. It's like living in an Easter basket, almost a little too much. But in the wild, well I just have a weakness for tangled up bunches of stuff. And what's not to love when those tangles include flowers.

Swarthmore College does spring!

I drove by Swathmore College on the way home the other day. I just had to go back to take some pictures. These are all different trees and one bush.

More Spring in the City

I am optimistic that today I will feel mostly healthy. I've been down and out for two weeks now. But last night I took Mucinex before I went to bed. So, just as soon as I wake myself from this drug induced stupor... I just KNOW I'm going to feel great...

Desire

I get two urges every spring. Well, not so much Spring as the last part of winter before spring actually starts. The first is to look at flowers. The second is to draw. Let me clarify. I always draw. But this urge is to draw things, not in the studio, not from photographs but outside and close enough to touch them.

Yesterday, driving around in my car, I was overcome by the desire to drag this canvas I’m working on outside, into the wood. But guess what. IT”S STILL COLD OUTSIDE. Argh.

Another trip to Longwood Gardens to see the orchid show may do the trick. Then I can look at flowers and draw them!