Variations on a theme

[UnquietDreams]

Pacific Trillium View attachment 2337607

I love Trillium. The park by me has a huge forested area, and it is filled with them.

 

[lavendersilk]

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Italy again? So jelly.

This has been a lovely weekly prompt @Saltfountain

https://i.ibb.co/HznmB95/tr-dg-rd.jpg

I want to paint this in watercolors.

The streets of my neighborhood are lined with flowering trees, and in the spring they're filled with so many bees that there's a low buzzzzzzz heard everywhere outside. You can watch/listen here

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I absolutely loved that video clip!

 

[Lord Pmann]

Tell me what you'd see on a Rorschach test without me having to show you a Rorschach test.

I’m mostly surprised I didn’t have a Freudian slip and call it Little Shop of Whores.

 

[MindYaBitness]

That was awesome!

Also, apropos of nothing, I got stung by my first yellow jacket yesterday.

I love bees & I've never been stung by one. But a hornet got me in the arm a few years ago. Felt like someone had driven a ten penny nail into my forearm!

 

[Lord Pmann]

Italy again? So jelly.

Amalfi Coast.

 

[UnquietDreams]

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Not very artistic or captivating, but looks like a sign of spring

Actually, I find it captivating. New life pushing through the dead past. Spring in a picture.

 

[UnquietDreams]

I love bees & I've never been stung by one. But a hornet got me in the arm a few years ago. Felt like someone had driven a ten penny nail into my forearm!

Oh, I have never had a problem with bees. I love them. Yellow jackets, on the other hand, can go fuck the hell off. They get worse in mid-late summer, when they are just sullen and pissed off at the world like moody teenagers.

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

Little Shop of Whores.

That, I'm ok with visiting in the spring

 

[PlanetaryNebula]

Actually, I find it captivating. New life pushing through the dead past. Spring in a picture.

That’s the impression I got. It’s just so brown and ugly. There are some tulips or daffodils I think that seeded in the woods, I’d like to get a pic of them coming up with the sun filtering through. If it ever comes out

 

[hotcpu]

I love bees & I've never been stung by one. But a hornet got me in the arm a few years ago. Felt like someone had driven a ten penny nail into my forearm!

Hornets are just plain evil

 

[MindYaBitness]

Hornets are just plain evil

Flying spiders with swords

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Spring arrives late where I live. All the photos were taken in the four days before the theme started.

Snowdrops are the only flowers showing other than those in sheltered places with a suntrap by a warm building.

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[lavendersilk]

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[Nicefella]

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Lavender cappuccino with just made Lavender simple syrup.

I am not a sweet coffee guy. I prefer black, from a French press. But somebody got me thinking about this, so I made some strong (2:1) simple syrup and steeped culinary lavender in it. I lost my espresso machine in the divorce, but the Mokapot does a good imitation (and looks way cool). Nice floral touches. I think next time I would go 1:1 on the syrup.

Edited to add: I like it. Suck it, Starbucks!

Penzeys. I loved that store. Intelligent shit and so much variety. Too bad they couldn’t retail near me with the Amazon’s of the world and customers blowing their backs out with the free coupons. There was a Sur La Table near us as well which suffered the same fate.

Do you still have one near you?

 

[Deleted member 6607120]

https://imgur.com/a/RFkzb0W

I love the smell of moss. I love rainy spring days. Today I have both with my living moss wall. It's forever spring in my kitchen.

 

[hotcpu]

Flying spiders with swords

With a really bad attitude ... 365

 

[LIDiver]

I love bees & I've never been stung by one. But a hornet got me in the arm a few years ago. Felt like someone had driven a ten penny nail into my forearm!

Tigger, I was riding one of my Deere’s under some low branches and smacked my head into a white-faced hornet’s nest. Even though I outran most of them like a cartoon character, I still took 17 stings and had so much venom in me I actually felt stoned for a half hour.

 

[RosewoodTulip]

https://i.ibb.co/74sjK7W/20240411-095725.jpg

Daffodils
A gorgeous, golden herald of spring. These ones are wilting a little but still beautiful. Always make me smile.

 

[Lord Pmann]

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[lavendersilk]

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It's so nice to put a face to your... posts.

 

[Lord Pmann]

It's so nice to put a face to your... posts.

Thank you. My face is as sweet as my posts.

 

[Wand3rlust]

Thank you. My face is as sweet as my posts.

Waaaiiit. I thought your nose was longer...

 

[Lord Pmann]

Waaaiiit. I thought your nose was longer...

Only when I lie.

 

[hotcpu]

https://i.ibb.co/VQrrm7j/IMG20240410172757.jpg

 

[morelikeasong]

Sorry to ruin the nature photos streak! Just kidding, not sorry.

Pollinate me?