I just could not hold back some more images of these beautiful blooms. The time for their glory is just too short so it is invaluable that we have the techniques to keep their beauty forever - thanks to photography....
"Paeonia" (Paeoniaceae)Peonies belong to my absolutely favourite blooms. Not only the forms and colours of their blooms are so beautifully romantic but their perfume is pure heaven. I could stand there for hours and bury my nose in their petals forever...
"Paeonia" (Paeoniaceae)Did I tell you that I love Clematis? You rarely see them here and I don't know why. They just need full sun but the climate should not be the problem. Strange.
There are so many variations but I did find only 3 or 4 different versions. Again strange. They make such a lovely climber, their leaves look so delicate and their blossoms are just lovely. Maybe I have to look around more...
"Clematis" (Ranunculaceae)This year I was lucky to photograph this lovely compostion of two different cherry blossoms. Normaly you either find the light one OR the dark ones but rarely 2 of them together in one picture...
"cherries"Sometimes it is amazing - you live somewhere and somehow you miss entirely what peculiarities you can find there. I mean I cannot recount how often I have passed this area with the lilac growing like a forest. It should have jumped into my eyes but apparently it did not - or - I have passed this area only when the lilac was not in full bloom.
This year I made it, although the weather was not so nice to shoot great photos - but you get the point. The scent was breathtaking - clouds of lilac perfume went straight into your nose - I still can remember that when I look at the images - can you smell it too....?
And don't forget to click on the images - they are large!
"Syringa" (Oleaceae)Lime trees in Munich are in full bloom now and the wind carries their perfume everywhere. It arrives in little clouds full of scent even on my balcony on the 13th floor. How I love this scent! It is heavy, sometimes nearly austere because it is so strong.
I wonder how often people look at these trees which are so common here and really appreciate this lovely smell and their beautiful little blossoms. They ARE beautiful, hanging in real clusters from their stems, each of them carrying a little crown made of filaments...
"Tilia" (Malvaceae)Is this a yummy colour or not? I love this deep pink. Trees look so lovely when they are covered in these thousands of blossoms. What could be more beautiful? I only wished it would last longer than just the 2 weeks or so when you can enjoy all those natural miracles. We have to wait for sooo long to see these again. But at least I have the photos to enjoy whenever I want to...
Btw - I have a problem here - I actually could not find out what this tree is. Do YOU know? I found out: these are apple trees!
"apple"I love these bushes, covered by tiny white blossoms allover. Each year again they are the signs that spring has definitely arrived. This year they bloomed together with forsythia and thus created lovely compostions in some areas. See here.
Although one could think - if you don't look close - that these bushes are somehow covered by snow - and they sometimes get covered by snow in our region - their scent talks a different language. Bees and other insects love these bushes and their buzzing is somewhat soothing.
"Spiraea" (Rosaceae)These bushes with the plushy yellow blossoms you can see here everywhere in spring. The colour is the pure sun just like sunflowers. It is as if they bring back the sunlight and bees love them as you can hear their buzzing allover.
"Kerria japonica" (Rosaceae)I truly hope that I do not bore you with just some more of these wonderful, amazing fluffy blossom balls. Each year I am standing there in awe, wondering how this is possible, this incredible burst of new life after the hiatus of a long long winter with nearly no colours, with that awfully cold and wet weather and days where you do not see the sun. I very much hope that you can share all that enthusiasm with me because this is what life is all about - the wonders of our nature, our beautiful planet.
It is not the kick you might experience through skydiving or bunjee jumping, go on a race with a racing car or any other of these activities. It is not the kick you get through taking drugs or filling you up with any buzz, it is not spending your nights in bars and clubs or travelling through the world as far away as possible. It is not the most extravagant house you can own or being part of renown societies.
Life is where possessions and desires end, life is where things grow on their own, where you need not do anything about it. Life is where you experience the smallest and the largest of all things, life is where you discover the universe within yourself and where happiness is unconditional.
Now imagine a world without all these blooms and blossoms, without the happy chirping of all the birds that can be heard right now. What a world would that be?
cherriesI am photographing this alley each year and each year it is different. Sometimes the blossoms are rather small and hang in small groups from the branches and sometimes they are thick, fluffy and seem to be much too heavy for the branches just as this year. A majestic view, a miracle of Mother Nature...
cherriesIt somehow makes me always sad when the magnolia are gone - I mean the blossoms not the trees. It makes me melancholic because then it comes to my mind that spring is over here in our region, summer - if there is one - is short and soon starts the fall season which is not too bad of course for a colour freak such as I am and when the weather is gracious. BUT... spring time, in all its glory and new hopes is by far the best. What's your favourite season?
"Magnolia"How often do we oversee the little things? We pay attention to things which are rather obvious, which jump into your face. Often you have to look really close in order to see the peculiarities of little things - in this case tiny blossoms.
I have visited this very same bush a couple of times. It has become a personal issue! But still - I somehow don't like this bush - you want to know why? Each time I am standing in front of it to photograph its tiny blossoms I am devoured by ants. So this is the ant bush for me. Apparently they consider me as an intruder into their home. And who could blame them for this?
People who might have watched me not only cycling through the same little streets for the 100th time in order to photograph the same gardens for the 200th time certainly will assume that I am nuts, jumping from one foot to the other like a loony - to get rid of the ants again who try to conquer my legs. But then I AM nuts, my aunt was it too. So what?
And don't forget to click on the photos - they are large!
"Berberis" (Berberidaceae)I somehow missed to show you these blooms as well. I love peonies so very much and tried once to grow them on my balcony - but it was a disaster - not enough sun and probably they are just not meant to grow in a pot.
So the only thing I can do still is photographing them, rummaging again neighbours' gardens and see how lucky they are with their treasures. And - oh my - there are quite a few...
Look at that pollen on the bloom - doesn't it look like pure gold powder? If I only could transfer the perfume via the computer...
"Paeonia" (Paeoniaceae)
Painted Sari(click on the image) I work with multiple media: wood, paints, fabrics. Tools are chisel, brush, needle and camera. Products are sculpture and furniture, paintings, photography, textile art. |
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