It's that time of year when we here get the day with the shortest period of daylight...but of course the most miserable time is yet to come as the weather gets even worse. To counter attack nature, I would like to show a few fotos from the spring and summer so that we can remember how it was and how it will be again.
Absoluteluy gorgeous!! It seems sooo long since I had flowers like that in my garden. Roll on spring.
Wow Sjoerd, simply wonderful photos there. To think that sights like that will soon be presenting themselves is hard to believe. Roll on Spring!
Thank you Sjoerd, that is a very welcome sight for sore eyes. I have been so busy, that seeing such beautiful flowers reminds me to stop, an (pretend right now) to smell them. And today is the Solstice!!!!!! yes!! yeah!! Bring on the light!!!!!! I made a sunshine cake for just today, to honor the comming of the sun.
Those are beautiful. Of course I love those tulips since my favorite color is purple. Spring should be just around the corner-right? Soon we'll all be busy putting in our gardens before we know it. Think spring everyone.
Thanks for your really nice comments, folks. As time goes on, it just gets browner and grayer here, so I pull out my cd of saved garden pics to look at from time to time. It does me a word of good. Yes Droopy, the next to last pic is indeed a sunflower. I like that sunflower because it's such an unusual type for Holland. It truly does look like a sunball doesn't it.
Hiyah Wrennie, I do not know the name of that sunflower type anymore--I have thrown the seed pack away, sadly. The second one is an artichoke flower. Here is a sort of metamorphosis of such a flower, from opening bract to dead flower: It isn't very big here but perhaps you can get an idea.
Sjoerd, they are all lovely, but I love the glad the best, my favorite flower. May I use it as a screen saver. The artichoke flower is really interesting, and very beautiful, I have never seen one before, thank you for sharing it and all of the other pictures, they have really brightened my day.
Well Cajunbelle, if you want to use a glad shot for a screreensaver or background, would you like for me to send you a horizontal foto instead of using this vertical one...using a vertical foto will have large areas of black either side of the foto.
Exquisite!! These beautiful photos are like a tonic, and just when my spirits really needed a lift! I'm a pitiful mess. Many thanks.
Ahhh.. aren't you a nice person. Thanks Well, I'm glad they helped....they helped me too. I have been looking my piccies from my last year's flowers and gardens to lift my own spirits. heh heh It's amazing how they help, also with planning for the coming season. It looks like you have a cold.
Yup, it NEVER fails - give me a bit of vacation time and I will find some dreadful bug to catch. I think I'm turning the corner now, I should start to feel in top condition soon . . . . . . just in time to go back to work, next Monday, I expect.
