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pictures of flowers

Wed, 20 May 2015 04:06:14 GMT

I caught the cherry blossoms!
( click to enlarge )

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out and about

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:05:18 GMT

I think I passed Lucius Malfoy by the subway station the other day. Long white-blond hair, tall man, black coat; I turned to look and it's definitely Azkaban-era Malfoy, with stubble. It was great. I'm going to pretend that he's wandering round my unglamorous Canadian city just because.

I saw the very first flower of the year--the hothouse daffodils that have been planted out from indoors don't count--a small clump of purple crocus. Unfortunately I think the weather report says snow tomorrow (??) so bye bye, little white flowers that haven't bloomed yet :(

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(from April 16, spring flowers)

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:56:51 GMT

I came home this afternoon and saw the flowers coming up. They've been coming up for about a week now, but then we had snow and then horrid rain for three or four days (and cloudy skies when it wasn't raining). Suddenly I felt that time was fleeing and that I had to get outside and take pictures. Immediately. Spring is the quickest, briefest season--what was it that Robert Frost said?

Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.

There's this house on the corner, and the owners have a big hedge grown up along the sidewalk. In the wintertime it's pretty see-through because the leaves fall off, and sparrows perch in it year-round, so I like to look for birds when I go by. But today I saw that it had started budding leaves. And what leaves! They were just like flowers.

While I was doing my first pass (mostly to toss the blurry or under/overexposed photos) and flicking through pictures, waiting for them to load, zooming in and out to look at clarity etc, I found myself practically salivating over the photos. The really nice, really sharp pictures--I kept thinking that they were absolutely delicious.

Then I got up and ate dinner, just in case.

That said, there's just something in a clean, sharp macro photo that's...delicious. Some brain wiring has gotten fused, perhaps, but--well, the flowers look like they're cupping sunshine! Ahhhh, there's nothing like flowers.

( Pictures! )

I think I need to change my lj style. (After four years!) It's just not as wide as the dw one, and it's a pain with photographs; if you visit my journal you'll probably have to scroll; I don't think that the space is even 800px wide.

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All my journal updates in the intervening time have been support investigations.

Sun, 22 May 2011 06:11:58 GMT

I am emerging from Round One of Exams (there are two this year) and so I should be posting...somewhat more often! If there is something you have wanted me to do for ages you should ask now since I have a lull of a few weeks before Round Two.

( Babbling... )

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link dump and rambling.

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:07:11 GMT

Random link dump, because I was browsing through a community :P

Frank in a whole bunch of incarnations. Also includes the one with SA's logo, but it looks more like he's been shot or something o.O

I had no idea this existed. :D :D

Other things that may or may not be of interest to you:
1. a water main burst on one of the main roads in the city the other day. It looked like the river burst its banks. I was impressed.

2. It's melting it's melting! Spring is coming! (When the sun comes out the world feels beautifully optimistic, it's golden and warm and oh glory! It's partly cloudy today. The clouds have this way of quashing that optimism.)

3. The ground is blushing green.

4. I would like to have a voice like this. (although they do have the choir back them up, which helps enormously with power and all).

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