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Continuing the dig though my archives . . . you may recognize some of these photos . . . I offer part five of my Seasonal Musings. Moving back into the barn I am sharing the views looking mostly due east as we saw from the little studio, only now we are further north. You can see the tips of a Crabapple from the orchard to the north side of the barn and the gardens just outside the barn studio doors. It is a rather boring sticky garden in the winter, until snow outlines the many branches of Lilac, Viburnum, Roses and Tree Lilac. The larger tree in the distance is my beloved serpentine native Black Cherry, tenderly referred to as 'Michael's Tree'. Note the shrubs in the foreground are standing tall . . . some reaching over ten feet . . . covering the view of the Black Cherry's lower trunk.
Stormy nights can drop a lot of snow. An earlier full moon paints the landscape bright blue.
By morning the heavy snow has nearly flattened the tall shrubs revealing the serpent like trunk of the Black Cherry. Yikes!
I await the verdict for my shrubberies, as the snow melts.
They are free! Pliable and yielding they bounce back up into Spring!
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| SPRING |
Fresh new spring greens slowly fill out the gardens and landscape.
Spring becomes a riot of color and fragrance.
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| French Lilacs and Viburnums |
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| SUMMER |
Summer brings roses, peonies and frothy blooms of the Tree Lilac! The Viburnums produce many hearty berries the birds devour.
Summer and early Autumn are most magical for the release of many Monarch Butterflies!
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| Autumn |
The Black Cherry becomes golden as the days grow shorter.
November's late Autumn light is still a welcome sight. Now when I look out all color is gone, excepting the dark evergreens and ever present gray. Light plays an important role in the gardens and landscape throughout the seasons too.
Speaking of Light! Our Winter Solstice is but a day away. The moon will be full and there is to be a lunar eclipse. 12/21/10! I hope the skies are clear. The eclipse event will begin Tuesday around 1:30AM Eastern Standard Time. HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE! For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, our days will begin to grow longer, as we tilt towards spring. I will note the sun moving back towards the north along Carey and Walnut hill . . . a tiny bit each day. HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE! to friends in the Southern Hemisphere.
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29 comments:
These images are fabulous. You are such a great photographer. The first images of the snow have so much mood and feeling. It looks so peaceful and quiet, like no one was there, not even the photographer.
Wow Carol ~ Once again a lovely set of pictures of the seasons in your wonderful bit of paradise.
Thank you for doing this as it is really beautiful and relaxing taking these little visual tours.
FlowerLady
Hi, Carol!
What a lovely tour of the seasons in your beautiful garden. When I viewed that first photo I thought... what a marvelous place for a snowshoe. We've got our fingers crossed for clear skies for the lunar eclipse, as well. Have a Merry Christmas!
Oh I did soo enjoy your tour of the seasons.
We do not get snow where I live - it looks soo beautiful!
Summer solstice down here, but we are having soo much rain & cloud (drat for tonight's eclipse & full moon)it is looking like an indoor one this year.
Thanks again for sharing photos.
Love Leanne New Zealand XX
Hi Carol,
Lovely photos, such amazing views although I don't envy the snow right now... We've dodged it for the past week or two, but it's apparently on its way!
Totally enjoyable post Carol... as always I might add! It was good to be reminded that things do generally pop back up in spring after ice and heavy snows lay them down... I just finished blowing out paths through the gardens and some of the evergreens look pretty decrepit bent in a variety of abnormal positions... always makes me a little nervous... another good snowstorm coming today and tomorrow... Take care, Larry
It is always such a joy to visit your gardens. All of your photos are spectacular; I particularly enjoyed your winter snow photos. We see snow like that here, but maybe only a few times in a lifetime. It is good to know we are now headed toward longer days and spring. I have been shivering for weeks! Have a blessed holiday season, and may the new year bring you the best of gardening days.
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December 21 is my favorite day of the year. It's downhill to spring from here! lovely photos once again. Carolyn
I just love these pictures, it's a pleasure each time to visit your blog!
Here is a quite hard winter, unusual with such cold weather and so much snow, soon we have christmas holiday and can stay home with a godd conscious. kram Sophia
Brrrr...those winter photos are gorgeous, but they look so very very cold! I do hope your skies are clear for tomorrow. Somehow I doubt ours will be, but maybe if we're lucky we'll get a brief glimpse of the lunar eclipse!
Just wonderful! I could feel the cool breeze from the first photo and could smell the lilacs in the spring shot! I know I've said it before, but your spot on the globe is just magnificent.
Yes, it's our Summer Solstice tomorrow Dec 22, so it will be an especially long day of heat and humidity! Yaaah! Your Spring is getting closer ... whilst we're getting closer to Winter, which is a great thing to look forward to here!
Carol,
I wanted to be sure and stop by and say Merry Christmas to you and yours! and may the New Year be joyous and filled with much good health and happiness. See you next year. ;)
Carol,
These shots are all breathtaking. Ahhhhh, spring is on the way. We've almost reached the shortest day of the year.
Happy dreaming,
Sharon Lovejoy Writes from Sunflower House and a Little Green Island
These posts are beautiful. I enjoy seeing your garden views through the seasons. I truly appreciate winter wonders, but I think I might have drooled a little over the budding captures of spring.
Carol, that first picture is absolutely magical!!! Each seasonal post is more beautiful than the next! Thanks for sharing your seasons of beauty!
The first photo is a perfect winter wonderland! The lilacs and viburnums and roses in your garden are just magnificent. French Lilacs won't get very big here in central NC and yours are lovely against the green countryside. I very much enjoyed this four season tour!
Carol, There seem to be an endless flow of beautiful views from you. I love these neverending scenic views of your side of the world. Happy Winter Solstice! We will celebrate the Winter Solstice Festival on 22nd Dec to mark the changeover from yin to yang. For family togetherness, we shall eat tang yuan which is rice flour balls cooked in sugar syrup.
Hi Carol, as usual your photos are all mesmerizing! They are cold but warm the heart. It should have been lovelier if you can send some cold winds to our direction. We here at +8 GMT will be experiencing the lunar eclipse much ahead of you, and it will just be partial. How i wish to have a better lens for that. In just a few hours we will see it as it is now 5pm here. Happy holidays and Merry Christmas.
Loved going through the images of the changing seasons. A pleasure to come here and feast on your wonderful images!
A beautiful progression of pictures. You have such a lovely spot. Unfortunately the skies were quite cloudy here last night so no eclipse was to be seen but I'm thrilled the days will start to lengthen again.
What a delightful walk through the seasons. We got up to see the lunar eclipse last night, but alas, it was too cloudy. We went back to bed to dream of eclipses.
I feel handicapped with words and expressions to describe the magic you have woven with your camera. The sequence of photographs, from snow to spring, is stunning. I have never seen nature in motion the way you captured it; thanks for posting them.
Lovely magical photos. Enjoy admiring them very much.
What a fabulous series of photographs from the same vantage point. Stunning! Happy Holidays to you!
I was really amazed at the colours that appeared in spring and summer - gorgeous.
I am glad that the winter solstice is here so the days can start to get longer
Have a good Christmas
What a great post. I loved seeing the seasons blend into each other through your photos. Simply beautiful.
It is wonderful to see the march of the seasons in this series of posts. I hope that you and your family have a perfect Christmas holiday and best wishes for the new year!
Such lovely photos, Carol. You live in a wonderland. Hope your Christmas is magical!
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