For many, Spring is just around the corner. February has been a challenging month for severe weather! Are you as ready as I am for spring’s beautiful colors and the warmer weather it brings?
I got a great shot of this honeysuckle close to our B&B after some rain in Hawaii last year.
Here in Northern California, after at least two months of gray, cold weather, we are happy to see some trees beginning to bud. Many of our fruit and nut trees bud around the middle of February, showing us the promise of spring!
“Fresh” is this week’s Sunday Stills theme.
While we are waiting patiently, here are some more photos to help inspire your creativity to the challenge.
Another fresh look includes a close-up of these beautiful tomatoes found last Fall at a local farmer’s market.
I love taking close-ups and macros of flowers. I am always intrigued by the tiniest details found inside the petals of a flower.
I am also sharing these beautiful blossoms for this week’s Lens-Artists photo challenge: Nature and for Cee’s Flower of the Day!
For this week’s Sunday Stills challenge, show us a fresh perspective on something, some fresh food or flowers, even fresh snow (if you must). In the middle of February, show us the promise of spring. I can’t wait to see what you have to offer!
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[…] the theme is Fresh, well, so many things fresh things around me this […]
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The freshness of spring, can’t wait for it! Have a lovely day.
Here is my link:
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I know, it will be here sooner than later, hopefully!
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Beautiful photos, Terri.
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Thank you, Stevie!
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[…] Posted in response to this week’s Sunday Stills challenge on the theme of ‘Fresh.’ See more offerings here. […]
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I love taking those flower close ups too, though that’s not what I’m going with for this challenge. Instead I chose https://grahamsisland.com/2019/02/17/fresh-produce/.
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I just read your post, Graham. Fresh has a whole other meaning on an island.
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We are blessed by much freshness here, from the winds to the local things we eat, so I can’t complain.
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Gosh, those shots make me yearn for some spring, Terri. You have such a talent for those up close shots.
OXOX
Jodie
http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
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Thanks, Jodie! ♥️ we can only wish this time of year, but the signs are here!
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Such details caught in all the photos! Beautiful🌸
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Thank you! Seems like the camera catches more than we see!
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I felt a pang when looking at those tomatoes.
Yummy!
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They were ripe and fresh, indeed!
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Ya making me crave bacon….lol
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Terri, I always look forward to your photos – you are an excellent photographer and you capture images that I find beautiful. Thank you for a spring into spring. It’s sunny here in So Cal today but the forecast is for more rain this afternoon. Is the pink flower an apple blossom? Or…?
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Thanks, Shari! We have sun and clouds with the dry north wind blowing. We have so many fruit trees in the area, I never know which are which!
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I guess you have to wait for the fruit to show its face!
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Thanks for jumping into the Lens-Artists challenge Terri – loved your photos, especially those plump, juicy tomatoes. ours are still from a hot-house 😦
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Thank you, Tina, it was nice to share for a similar theme today! Tomatoes love Sacramento…we lovingly refer to it as Sacratomato 😉 No tomatoes though until mid summer.
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That first photo is just showing off!! Great photos!
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Hee hee, thanks, Gavin!
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You are most welcome.
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[…] week the prompt for Terri’s Sunday Stills Photo Challenge, is Fresh and it was fun to look at how fresh can be interpreted. What do you think of when you hear the […]
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I love the dew on the flowers! So delightful!
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Here’s my contribution for this fresh prompt!
Na’ama
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I am so looking forward to spring! Even though we don’t get the snow, it’s been cold here (by SoCal standards). The rain we’ve been having should produce glorious spring flowers. Those tomatoes look good enough to eat!
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Me, too, Janis! It’s very cold , wet and gray here this year! I should have bought some of those tomatoes–this was up in Placerville’s farmer’s market in November.
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Hi Terri, I love your take on fresh and am glad to hear you are finally heading towards spring! Your photos are lovely and i too like macros of flowers and just getting into them 🙂
Thanks for the prompt and my post highlights seeing through fresh eyes https://debs-world.com/2019/02/18/seeing-life-through-fresh-eyes/
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Your photographs are stunning Terri, the water droplets in the first image are just beautiful! And the colours…Just beautiful!
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thanks, Sam!
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I too am definitely ready for spring. We haven’t been able to hike the trail “Jewel of the Creek” due to flash flooding. The weather has been crazy this winter!
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I guess all this rain and snow is good for us out here in the West and Southwest!
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Spring has already arrived in the UK, Terri. We’re having some very unseasonal weather, with sunny skies and the temperatures in the mid to high 60s. It’s been like it for over a week now, and the rest of this week is much the same. I even saw some people bathing in the sea over the weekend. Crazy weather? Yes. But not many are complaining about it. Still, it’s signs of climate change, so I’m not so sure we should really be enjoying it yet.
Great photographs, although, at first, I thought those tomatoes were red apples.
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Thanks, Hugh! Our West has been wild for weeks now, which is good–rain and snow we need. It will be warm and sunny enough all the way into late October and we’ll be crying for rain and colder days again 😉
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Isn’t that always the case, Terri? We seem to get fed-up with the same old weather for weeks on end. I remember our summer heatwaves of last year and how I wished for cooler, rainy days. Now I’m looking forward to warm sunny days again.
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[…] These wonderful sandwiches look really ‘fresh’ to me and are my contribution to Second Wind Leisure’s Sunday Stills with a prompt of A Fresh Look. See more at https://secondwindleisure.com/2019/02/17/sunday-stills-a-fresh-look/ […]
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How refreshing to see blossoms and fresh vegetables, Terri. We won’t see any of these in real life here in Maine for a couple of months. I just sighed after I typed that last sentence. I’ll live vicariously through you, okay?
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Sounds good, Molly…the veggies I cannot help you with right now
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I’m definitely ready for April, May and beyond, Terri! Thank you for setting a Spring mood with your photos. They are absolutely lovely!
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[…] theme for her Sunday Stills Challenge this week is Fresh. I can’t remember if these were peaches or apples, but they were as fresh as you will find […]
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Wonderful topic and your photos look so fresh 😀 😀
Here is my entry for the week.
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Thanks, Cee!
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So fresh! Soon spring here as well!
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I’m sharing some fresh snow this week! Since we got a lot of it right now 🙂 Have a fantastic weekend.
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I forgot to share the link https://sagittariusviking.com/2019/02/22/weekend-coffee-share-snow-in-las-vegas/.
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These photos are everything I love about spring! Fresh fruit and vegetables again, beautiful flowers! The flower photos are so detailed and beautiful! I love them!
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Thank you, Aixa!
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Reblogged this on LIVING THE DREAM.
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