WEARIN' 'O THE GREEN

 I am a day late, but I wasn't home to do this until now.

There are so many greens in our natural world, especially here in the northwest. 

I got carried away here, but I did actually restrain myself.

Some creatures wear green all the time:

 

Teasle, still in the green:

 Douglas Fir new growth:

In the end, no one wears it better!

SAME 'OLE / SAME 'OLE

As I sat at my computer to start downloading the puddle photos of the following blog, a brightness (not the sun, phooey!) burst through the window and back-lighted a bouquet of tulips on my desk.

It was only momentary, but just long enough for me to pick up my camera before the downloading had started.

Yes, every single year I photograph tulips on my desk!

But hey - they bring spring to my heart long before it has occurred outside!

I am so thrilled that the auto-turn glitch has been fixed and I can post my photos as I have taken them, and without distortion! 

I love that this one seems to be filling with the color of the yellow tulip underneath:

FINGERPAINTING, ANYONE?

Yesterday while D and I were on our early-morning bike ride, the temp was below freezing enough to put a thin layer of ice on the bike trail puddles.

Not a thing of beauty, a shallow mud puddle; I would much rather come across a nice backyard garden pool for ice photos.

Mud below, and no macro lens meant I shouldn't have even bothered.

However, it was fascinating that such varied patterns could occur on barely one-inch-deep water.

This one does indeed look like finger painting:

Fascinating how little pebbles could cause a rift in the freezing process:

 This one looks like it was tossed in at the very second of the freezing point, creating a "splash" of ice:

 And waves, in thin ice?

 Why straight lines here instead of curved like all the others?