Honeysuckle

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color, flowers, honeysuckle, Lonicera ciliosa, orange honeysuckle, photography, spring

This is orange honeysuckle, Lonicera ciliosa. Amazing colours against the blue and green.

Yelling at tent caterpillars

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tent caterpillars

I know it doesn’t harm them, but it can be cathartic. And it produces such interesting results.

Our Dog is astonishingly tolerant

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bird, cat and dog, Our Dog

New greens

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color, fir needles, photography, spring

I like the way these fir needles are unfolding in such a dramatic sweep…

…and these just make me want to pet them.

New leaves on the smoke bush

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color, leaves, photography, spring

Spring maples

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color, maple trees, maples, photography, trees

We have some very big maple trees on our island. I like the early-spring brilliance of the new leaves way up there.

First 2013 rhodos

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color, flowers, light, photography, rhododendron, rhodos, spring

I like taking pictures of rhododendrons. I expect I’ll take more. But these are the first this year.

It’s so convenient having a forest next to our yard when I want dramatic shots against dark backgrounds.

Streaky mystery

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beach, light, photography, sandstone

There’s nothing particularly unusual about this picture, it’s just another a scenic beach shot. But when I looked at the photo, what caught my eye were those streaky light effects in the shadow behind the sandstone formation. Now I’ve had light effects appear on shots in the past, they tend to happen when the angle of camera lens is in a particular relationship to the angle of the sun—but I can’t account for the light streaks only appearing in the shadow. That’s a new one on me.

The League of One-Eyed Cats is watching you

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cats

Not a raindrop

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droplet, photography, reflections, sap

It’s a drop of fresh sap hanging from a spider thread. Kind of a permanent raindrop.