a swarm of bright purple flowers next to a tree trunk with a small bit of dead brown ivy

#blossom #photography #cmountlens

stone flowers on an old headstone, covered in the green patina of life. date inscribed above the flowers: feb 27 1895

large magnolia flowers beginning to open

#cmountlens #photography #blossom

in focus is a carved stone angel writing in a book behind a blooming yellow bush in the foreground blur. the statue's pedestal is obscured and it's left leg is raised to support the book, making it look like it's climbing a ramp of blurry yellow flowers. a large tree in the background is dark and leafless.

as the popular saying goes: false connections are the magical residue of dimensional reduction
#photography #cmountlens

a distant stand of thin white birch trees embedded in a cloud of their new yellow seeds/flowers

a heavy branch of bright white blossoms in front of a blurred background of dark leafless trees

at mt Auburn cemetery yesterday
#photography #cmountlens

a half circle of blossoms lit by the sun. behind are more layers of blossoms in shadow

looking up into a canopy of backlit blossoms

#blossom #photography #cmountlens

a proud palm warbler with a bright yellow belly and a russet cap, standing on a branch and looking up for insects on the trunk

a palm warbler in the middle of a bush that is just beginning to sprout bright green leaves

closeup palm warbler, a lil blurry after suddenly landing on a branch right in front of me

#palmwarbler #photography #cmountlens

manual-lens bird photography is a fun challenge

a swarm of tiny blue flowers in light and shadow

an eruption of tiny red leaves in clusters on a thin tree branch.

#photography

small ruddy-pink blossoms crowded together on the end of a skiny twig of a branch

these are on a sickly lil tree in the neighborhood. blossoms are only on one area. the rest of the tree looks dead...

they are the most beautiful blossoms I've ever seen

#blossom #photography

looking through windows at an outdoor seating area outside some cafes. everything is bright and sunny and ppl are walking by and sitting around peopling

foreground: a small weeping willow (?) in bright green new leaves almost too tiny to see. in the blurry background is an all glass skyscraper, boston style (tall...but not too tall) against a cloudless blue sky

#photography

cast-iron emergency exit stairs on a brick building cast a long and interesting shadow across the bright wall.

yesterday 5 pm downtown boston
#photography

a bright mural of a young girl on a green background on the 2nd floor of the side of a brick building. in the foreground is a blurry bus-stop sign for the #1 bus.

#photography

a patchwork of garden lots awaiting spring, with weathered wooden posts and boards at all angles

looking down a street of brownstones. the buildings are partially obscure by a line of cherry trees that are just entering bloom.

looking past a garden plot with a wood and wire fence to a distant stone bridge and above that an even more distant set of brownstones with metal flashing covered in a green patina. nothing is growing or sprouting yet except for two yellow green trees blooming either side of the stone bridge.

#photography
in/around fenway victory gardens

a wood power pole in focus in the foreground; a group of blonde-brick buildings in soft focus in the background

#photography

a bare stick in the sun. no flowers. no buds.

4 or 5 dried husks like thin white bones

a stand of narrow birch trees shedding their papery skin in low-focus

a mess of yellow catkins in low focus against a deep blue sky

almost spring
#photography

a grackle on s feeder with a very messy beak

close-up crop of the head of a grackle in profile. bits of crushed seed cling to the side of their beak.

a gracke walking around a feeder with a peanut in its beak. their head is slightly blurred and their black scaly feet and wing are in focus

a grackle in bright sunshine standing on a feeder

#grackle #photography

a grackle with a feeder to its left, looking right with a half peanut in its beak. the tail is purple; its coverlets are rose and gold. wingtips have a crimson hue and the back feathers are gold and green. the hood is bright ceramic blue

in direct sunlight, the only black on a grackle is in the center of their eye (beak and feet don't count)
#grackle

yes yes YES!

the first blossom opens on a tree. bright sunshine pours through the pinkwhite petals as they open. multiple unopened blossoms can be seen in the blurry background.

#blossom #photography

in focus on the right are two signs on a large metal pole. on top is an old faded blue sign reading "Old Cambridge Historic District" below that is a new shiny "2 HR PARKING" sign with a green arrow pointing both directions. in the background blur is a bright sunset sky and on the left a blurry brick building with a tall square bell-tower catching the sunset on its right face

the gloaming in a very old cemetery with thin featureless slate headstones scattered across a close-cropped lawn. an old brick walkway catches the late-day light and almost glows as it snakes across the image from lower right to upper left

lovely but still not quite spring-like... and it's meant to snow tonight...
#photography

a big old weeping willow tree prepares its foliage, hanging in bright green streamers over yellow grasses

layers upon layers of bright yellow stalks in a micro-wetland in a local park (danehy). in the background is a modern house with bright white trim creating triangles behind a screen of still-leafless trees

#photography

two very green buds on a tree, about to blossom. the green petals are covered in fine 'hairs' making the slightly fuzzy

#blossom #photography

looking down at a pair of children's galoshes sitting on a low stone wall. they are rainbow striped with yellow inners.

standing on top of the hill in danehy park. in hard focus left-of-center is a tall exhaust pipe that keeps the hill from exploding (not really but...kinda) and in the distance in soft focus is a tall steal-beam radio tower.

today a walk to danehy park
#photography

a grackle in full profile with it's feet facing different directions as it walks around a feeder towards a sparrow who's desperately eating while he can

starlings battling on the left of a feeder as a grackle approaches from the right. everyone is slightly motion-blurred

a grackle in full profile looking left on a feeder. on the right is a starling that's just arrived and a female sparrow who is quickly departing as the larger birds take over

a grackle in profile looking right on a feeder. behind it on the left side is another grackle flapping a wing madly to stay on the feeder

mayhem at the feeder
#grackle #starling #sparrow #photography

4 Sparrows on a feeder, eating quickly while watching for larger birds

3 Sparrows on a feeder. the male on the left has a seed in his beak and a female on the right is checking him out

and in between the flurries of larger birds, the sparrows filled their beaks
#housesparrow #photography

a very spotty starling on a feeder watches as another starling flies off. the flying starling is obscured by an extremely blurred branch of a nearby bush

a determined starling walks around a feeder, looking for a chance to grab some food (to prevent squirrels/rats, the feeder opens and closes based upon weight. there are more starlings out of frame and the feeder is partially closed)

a combative starling rises up to its full height and puffs out its head feathers in hopes of keeping its spot on a feeder as another curious starling looks on.

when the grackles took a break , the starlings had a go
#starling #photography

a grackle peeking out from behind a feeder with half a peanut in its beak. in shade it's color is subdued but you can still see a blue hood. and of course, the bright yellow eyes

a grackle walking along a circular perch around a feeder. blue hood and yellow eyes with a rough gold/copper mid section

grackle at a feeder, turning to look at the camera, it's wide tail splayed. the blue hood becomes emerald green before becoming copper/gold on the back while the wing feathers have a distinct magenta cast.

#grackle #photography

proving once again that the time of dinosaurs was most likely bursting with shimmering color and rainbows, not swamp-green lumps of drab.

structural color does not fossilize . . .

omg Rob Brydon and Ben Miller
ARE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE

huge swaths of my memory of British media are wrong

iykyk

new fuzzy buds on a thin tree branch. In the blurry background are many more new buds

#photography
rokkor 58mm f1.2

a field of tall yellow stalks of swamp grass with a single red-winged Blackbird visible clinging to a stalk while singing. you can just see the red stripe on his wing.

#redwingedblackbird singing alone in a field

#photography

a distant redtailed hawk approaches, soaring to the right with it's tail tilted left so that you can see the red

the redtailed hawk sitting on top of a lighting fixture over a playing field, facing left, looking right. the wind is lifting up feathers on the back of its head

#redtailedhawk #photography