Weekend 119: A fresh breeze is good for us

We were back on our favourite tour. Moderate temperature between 5 to 10 degrees and visiting clouds helped us to keep hiking. We managed to walk 11 km with an ascent of about 576 metres in 3 hours before lunch. We could not go futher due to ice on the top.

Spring flowers are scarcely blooming and mostly on the sunny side of the valley. Though almost every survivng plant/tree showcase lovely buds.

We saw a batch of beautiful purple wild flowers, Genus Hepatica, perennials Chionodoxa (Scilla) in the buttercup family growing along the roadside. It looks like flowers were waiting for some sunshine. Jude has corrected the name of these flowers.

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Jo’s Monday Walk

Stay safe and be kind.

Wordless Wednesday 15-21

Jude ‘s life in colour – pink

Becky’s bright square

Kate’s Friday Fun

Random 8: Spring in me

Spring in me

Denial demands struggle.

I welcome.

Slowly moving forward.

Wordless Wednesday 13-21

See with your heart

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.~Suzy Kassem

As red as…

It’s impossible to be involved in all situations, but there’s no excuse not to be involved in something, somewhere, somehow, with someone. Make an ounce of difference ~ Richelle E. Goodrich (Smile Anyway)

For:

Friday Fun -diet

Sunday Stills

A little beauty!

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Yellow rose

My first entry to Jude’s Life in Colour Challenge.

Weekend 114: Winter Settles in

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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy ~Rumi

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it ~John Burroughs 

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return — every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers ~ Peter Viereck

Jo’s Monday walk

Becca’s Nurturing Thursday

Becca’s Sunday Trees

A few little details

The pattern

It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen ~ John Wooden.

Ignoring Dandelion is not possible

If it was not blur

Little details have special talents in creating big problems! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed ~ Ansel Adams

Dedication

A couple of days ago

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold ~Aristotle

Last week when temperature was aaround -8 degree C.

Sadly I do not own a macro lens. I looked for it at different places/shops but didn’t manage to get one. I wish to get one this year but for now I hope you like these images.

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