The largest amount of snow (per inch) recorded in DC.
And now it seems like we're going to have a really warm summer ahead of us as it's supposed to be in the 50s right now during the day as a high, and instead for the past week, we've been pushing 80. Therefore, it was only fitting that with the warm weather comes blooming, emerging, sprouting.
Most people think of tulips, cherry blossoms, lillies, etc. However once thing that I always like to examine, because at a world of it's own it has it's own type of forest is moss. As I went home to good ol' Johnstown, PA for Easter then I noticed that although it was really warm and almost 80, it hadn't hit up there as soon and therefore everything was still pretty dreary. But the moss was starting to grow like crazy because of the amount of moisture still on the ground left over from all of the snow.
So go explore the forests (thanks to macro) of moss:
As a bonus since I didn't have time to go see the Cherry Blossoms, this one is of a close-up of a Hyacinth (commonly known as baby's-breath) and it was one of the few plants that was growing around my mom's house. I like it because if you look at the pollen anthers (look at the full size), they remind of the small Aliens that would burst out of the chests of people in the Alien movie series. :-D
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i thought baby's breath were those little filler flowers that roses come with (http://olivet.squarespace.com/storage/weddings_flowers_5_350.jpg)
ReplyDeleteI wonder why they would call hyacinth's baby's-breath.
the first picture has kind of a tilt shift feeling to it, like it's a little land of moss for the smurfs or something. love that!
la la la la la la, la la la, la la la :-D
ReplyDeleteMoss picture is crazy cool, is one of those pictures were you can see an alien landscape and is hard to identify what is top left or bottom... nice picture
ReplyDeleteFor the second one I like the light coming from the inside of the flower
Good job