Ancient Ruins of Dodge

In a search for "Ruins" for the photo group

Photographic Platforms weekly theme.

I came across this old Dodge truck long since abandoned

in the back of a old farm field surrounded by raspberry canes.

The license plate was 1977 and the truck is easily 10 years older.

If your interested, here is a link to that group.

http://www.facebook.com/Photographic.Platform

Chrysremys picta

You know its an early spring when you see Painted Turtles in early April.

North Americas most wide spread native Turtle

Fossils show the Painted Turtle existed 15 million years ago.

The Return of Spring and...

As every year spring returns

so does "Black with a Smack"

some spring blooms Smacked!

Jack's Beans

Planting seeds today indoors

I like to start a lot of my annuals and a few perennials

from seed each each year. It makes my gardening season longer.

These are Red Carmencita Castor bean seed I saved from last years plants.

They are the size of your pinky finger nail and have such 

an interesting outside coat, and are now in soil on heating mats 

and underneath 16 hrs a day of growing light.

Shots taken in 3 very different lighting.

Spring Macro's

Springs delicate blooms 

Bokeh...Eh!

Winters Last Breath

Only a week ago it was 25 Celsius, sunny  

and felt more like summer than spring.

Then winter raised it head for one last gasp yesterday!

                             

                                       

Ice Off

 

March 21st the 1st day of spring.

These images are of Lake Rosseau and the fog from the remaining ice

on a very warm day and very early in the year.

Since we have had a cold snap which wiped out

allot of spring flowers that were fooled into the belief

that winter was done.

Blackbird

A real harbinger of spring in my neck of the woods!

"take these broken wings and learn to fly"

I'm a Spring Bee Baby!

Well I'm a spring bee

Buzzing around your hive

Well I'm a spring bee, baby

Buzzing around you hive

Yeah I can make honey baby

Let me come inside

much thanks to Muddy Waters

"I'm a King Bee"

1st Blooms 2012

Its been a real tame winter here in the great white north.

These are the 1st blooms in T-bone's garden

Its March 14th... that's early!

"Let us love winter,

for it is the 

spring of genius."

~Pietro Aretino

Minimal Monchromes

Elvis Lives!

The King Lives!

He was found just east of Toledo Ohio

He is currently the cleanup pitcher for the Mud Hens.

On his nights off  he is the fry cook at Big Boy!

Humans Sketched

Experiments with photoshop.

Spring is in the Air

March is here and in a month or so springs flowers too!

"The flowers of late winter and early spring

occupy places in our hearts

well out of proportion their size"

~Gertrude S. Wister