YES! No whining from me this week (about the weather, anyway...lol) like I did last week and the week before. Even the fact that it's unseasonably cold (I put my winter jacket on to wander the yard) and wicked windy (almost blew my tripod over at one point) the sight of the bright sun and brighter blue skies was enough to keep my from grumbling. Well, not as much anyway...lol
Oh and I actually didn't have Wednesday Walk listed for today's daily prompt for Hive Blog Posting Month. Instead for this week, I had -
Post about volunteering for Volunteer Recognition Day
However, even though I initially thought it would make a great topic for today, these past few weeks have been extra busy (especially this week, as our eldest is going in for day surgery on Friday & even a quick, minimally invasive procedure has lots of steps and things to check off the list, not to mention lots of distracting worries that moms are legally required to have about their babies, even if they're in their twenties things popping up). So the sight of the blue sky outside made it easy to decide to do a quick meander around the yard to clear my head instead.
But before I get to the meandering pictures, a quick shout out to Wednesday Walk host, @tattoodjay - be sure to hop over and take a peek at his latest, Wednesday Walk on the rocks, which I'm gonna check out shortly (and thanks @tattoodjay - now I have Neil Diamond singing in my brain! 😂 )
As for these photos, as per my usual FYI - these were taken in the yard of my Durham, NH home with my Nikon, also using my tripod. All were resized, then cleaned up a bit with PicMonkey - mostly the exposure and sharpness, but with a few other tweaks like vignette filters for the corners here and there.
Blue Skies, Bees, Buds, and Blooms for Wednesday Walk
1. Blue sky and green grass and no gray, makes for a happy Wednesday Walking day!
2. If you squint a bit, you can see some dandelions are now decorating the grass bandit mask.
3. I zoomed in on one of the dandelion blossoms, and this found this buzzing bee zooming around!
4. As much as I love my camera, there are times it just can't do justice to how things look in 3D. For example, our landlady's memorial tree was positively glowing in the sunlight. It was so striking that I took this picture, even with the not-so-pretty background (yes, the junction boxes and wires in the lower right corner are bugging me) because I figured the glowing blossoms had to do with the angle the sun was at & didn't want to change my viewpoint & lose the magic. Which is a very longwinded way of saying, this was much prettier in person! 😜
5. I think you can kind of tell how the blooms were glowing here, but this time I was focusing on another buzzing bee.
6. He was so intent on gathering pollen from the newly opened blooms that he didn't pay any attention to me or my camera that was right in his face (so to speak).
7. Whoops! Big gust of wind came by, and he almost lost his grip!
8. But again, he didn't let it deter him from his mission, and he continued on from bloom to bloom...
...even putting my camera super close (I'd say this was about an inch away from him) didn't bug him. But after getting those shots, I decided to leave him bee.
10. I meandered over to check and discovered the daffodils near our landlady's driveway are starting to bloom as well.
11. I'm hoping to get some close ups of the open blooms for next week.
12. Speaking of closeup blooms, this is one from one of the many small lilac bushes around the yard.
13. Did I mention blue sky?
14. I remembered seeing what looked to be a tiny violet when I was out with our dog Sandy yesterday afternoon, and went over to check - sure enough, not only did I find this one...
15. ....there was this tiny one right behind it.
16. At least all the rain has been good for the grass.
17. I tried for a bit to get a capture of the phoebe bird I mentioned at the end of my post from two weeks ago, but every time I spotted her, a big gust of wind came along and she'd fly to a different spot in the yard. After I lost track of her, I decided to grab a couple of shots of the tree growing out of the granite stone by our driveway.
18. There's a ton of new buds on it, even compared to just last week. Then after this shot, I decided to wander back inside the house. A few hours later, Sandy was doing his dance by the door (earlier than usual) so I ran him outside. The wind had died down a bit, and I saw Miss Phoebe hanging around near the house again, so when I brought Sandy in, I grabbed my camera, and a few minutes later...
19. ...she landed on a small tree near me (next to the bush with the red blooms in my posts from the previous two weeks) and posed for some pictures!
20. You can tell that once the wind picked up again, it really ruffled her feathers! 😂
21. She certainly enjoyed the sunshine though!
22. But the wind gusts soon proved to be more annoying than the sun was enjoyable.
23. She took one more peek at me (finally poking her head out of the shadows of the branch)...
24. ... then one more blast of wind convinced her to fly off again. Here's to hoping she poses again for me soon!
Happy Wednesday Walking everyone!
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Ohh those blue skies and so much beauty I have to say I loved this post the blossoms and buds bees 🐝 all sticking with B beautiful
And then phoebe bird returned and posed so beautifully for you
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)
And thanks in return for bee-ing the reason I get my butt out the door on Wednesdays, @tattoodjay. 😊
Such beautiful photos. Thank you so much for sharing. I've only visited New Hampshire once, but this makes me want to return.
Thanks @iwannabeme! I haven't been any further west than Pennsylvania, but I'd love to visit out your way some day too. And appreciate the kind words! 😊
Some great shots here! It's definitely been a strange way to spend April that's for sure! The wind yesterday was brutal and the temps in the low 30's at night isn't fun lol I thought we kicked March out the door?!?
Cool, over in Durham. I was there a few weeks ago with my son to try some fishing on the Lamprey for some trout. Wasn't successful but was a lot of fun nonetheless! We were on the Lee side of the river I think but that area seems to be some great fishing so we will be back a few more times I think.
It's funny how intent the bees are sometimes! The bumble bees are ones that I certainly have gotten to like more since they are very gentle. I even nursed one a little bit, he was dead tired from doing his awesome pollinator stuff that he was just lying there on the ground. We gave him a little bit of water with a tiny bit of candy in it for some sugar and it was off to keep working in a few minutes!
Yeah, seems like March didn't get the message, especially here in New Hampshire, eh? And part of Durham lost power for a couple hours (not us, luckily) because of that wicked wind. At least there wasn't an April Fool blizzard this year though, like we've gotten in the past!
I've seen bunches of people fishing at the Lamprey River & it seems to be a good spot. Not sure when the Mill Pond Dam is coming down, but I've heard people speculating that it will make for much better fishing there as well.
And what a cool thing to do! I used to be much more afraid of bees, after getting stung when I was a kid, but I've learned to love them in recent years. I enjoy stalking them through the yard & getting closeups when they're focused on the flower at hand and I'm more worried about hurting them accidentally (getting my camera too close) than getting hurt by them. Nice work Bee-Saver! 🐝 💪
Blues skies will definitely lift up my spirits. It is great that you are able to capture the bees in action.
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