January 22, 2005
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My wild and free backyard
Comparisons
My world consists in large part of my own back yard. I love the spot and enjoy looking at it almost any time of the year. Living on a dead end, we are a bit more wild and free. These are views I enjoy just a few feet from my door, all basically the same spot but at different times of the year.
Taken from behind my house, this is early spring. You can see faintly some of the heads on the Narcissus and their leaves.
The trees are tall, about 90 feet and the bittersweet that covers it I planted as bare root seedlings thirty or so years ago. Bittersweet is an endangered species as people gather it to work into fall and winter wreaths and bouquets. I guard the safety of these beautiful climbing vines.
This is a favorite photo of the spot and I used it on a web page I made for St Pats Day click here to view that page. We held my mother’s funeral here in my yard in June of 1983 among the woods and the flowers she loved. Her casket was covered with wild flowers we gathered for her, Chicory, Lilies and Cat Tails among them. She was an avid outdoors person and would have been very unhappy being remembered from within the confines of a funeral home.
Those vines in those trees look like this in the fall. The birds love them and their droppings begin new plants and there are many in the area just from the plantings I began.
We have snow. That from just at Christmas time is long gone but a new fall this week gave us a soft cold fall that stuck in the branches of the trees, the kind I love to see. We got about 6 inches and there is a light fall at the time of my typing this weblog. I am not sure what we will get really, maybe nothing to talk about but the view with or without the additional accumulation is wonderful.
A close up of the snow covered Bittersweet branches and if you enlarge the photo you will see a few of the berries the birds have not found. In a few short months, the cycle will begin again. Renewal, I think that is what life is all about.
That’s it until the next time,
Comments (10)
Beautiful photos! And a very appropriate topic for you now—the cycle of life. It keeps changing and renewing itself constantly. Just as we do!!
I love the spot covered in snow. I love white. You present it beautifully.
You have a massive garden. If I lived there I’ll be spending all summer sitting under those trees and writing.
Wow, that 3rd photo, given the right conditions, could make a masterpiece.
Beautiful! Just Beautiful!
What a beautiful world you live in, right there in you own yard!
These photos are absolutely stunning.
I bet you have plenty of birds and other critters… wow!
Your yard is completely the opposite of mine
I do not have any trees, well, I just planted a few maples a year and a half ago.
Thanks for sharing these.
your banner photo is very cool!
You prove that it’s the photographer not the camera…I love your composition and design!
Thank you, Becca. And welcome back. You’ve been away for too long.
Jim
Love the framing effect. Your photos are very nice!