Flowers ,Trees & Plants

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The Gift EXPLORE #1

This is my second "Four Seasons" tree project. This Post Oak is in my garden . Top Left : Spring Top Right : Summer (with the flooded pond around the base !) Bottom Left : Autumn Bottom Right : Winter I have already started the third Four Seasons with another Post Oak in the Garden EXPLORED !

One of my Snow Crocus is blooming !! Even for them its very early by about 3 weeks. The gophers also ate alot last year.....sigh. They had my English Bluebells and some of the Snowdrops that have a hard enough time as it is. The snow went about 30 miles south of us today EXPLORED !

I thought it has frozen and was dying.. but today she made a struggle to open EXPLORED !

This is one of my Pine trees... if like a wonderful slow motion waterfall. The sap suckers like the Norther Flicker love it and make holes and eat it ! Only problem is when it get off the ground onto the dogs fur ! EXPLORED !

Beautiful Jewels.

Some of you already know my Snowdrops story (please forgive the repetition !).... ... but for those who don't Snowdrops have a very personal special meaning for me. I was an 8 mth babe.. and though healthy.. a month early and born at home... in the worst February winter London had known for many years. Snowdrops bloom through the ice.. and my Dad said I was a fighter.. and called me his Snowdrop. It stuck.... he always made sure I had Snowdrops on my birthday.. till he died. Jay (the American gent I married in January 2005) carried that on once he knew... even through some adversity. I have planted some here ... hard to get them in the USA.. but I went through Brecks.. and when we moved here to the house I call Snow's Light in June 2011 ... I ordered.. and planted them in that October.... often they dont flower the 1st year. BUT.. they are slowly increasing in the number of flowers each Spring now.. and I planted 60 more My house is called "Snow's Light" ... Snowdrops Lighthouse... I also collect Lighthouses and miss the sea desperately. Its a real physical pain... Although I have traveled all my life and lived abroad... now... at 61 I am feeling homesickness desperately. Maybe as we get older we finally need our roots. I always believed I would move to New Zealand..... but the Dream Catcher mistook an American gent for a New Zealander ! So.... Snowdrops are the flower of my heart... and it goes with the 2nd one.. Mistletoe... which is the Spirit and Heart of the Oak... and the final one of Yellow Roses.. the colour of Happiness Mother Earth protects us all.... there should be no divide of Faith... we all have an investment in the beauty there is Sail on Fair Winds and Calm seas... and Walk in Beauty ........ EXPLORED !

That really is their name ! EXPLORED !

I wanted to do something different with this and use my graphics. This is the result of 25 layers and 6 hours. EXPLORED !

There was a hail storm last night ... how this blossom survived I do not know. There was also a wind blowing so it was CLICK and HOPE !! EXPLORED !

Its still too early for the trees to blossom.. but the weather is crazy. Last year the Peach Tree did well.. and the Racoons and Possoms enjoyed all but 6 of the Peaches ! EXPLORED !

Lonicera sempervirens 'Major Wheeler' (Coral Honeysuckle) EXPLORED !

Windflower also called Carolina Anemone EXPLORED !

This tree was all but dead with the terrible long drought we had. Then last year the huge rains have given it back a life. Perhaps the Raccoons and Possums will allow me to have an apple later in the year ! EXPLORED !