City Daily Photo has a mid-month theme: Festival of the Equinox.
For many of us the working week puts pay to much outdoor living until the weekends. The closest commuters can get to nature might be walking through the park on the way to catch a train, tram or bus. It's been a long, colder than normal winter in the north-west but signs for me that spring is ever nearer are the longer daylight hours (the sun was rising when I took this photo in Stamford Park on Wednesday at about 7 a.m.). Also some splashes of floral colours makes me feel happy about the impending change of season.
The many leafless, mostly bud-less trees still a have a long way to go though but walking back through this park on Friday evening with it still light at well after 6 p.m. I felt a buzz of equinoxal excitement. The trippy Flunk track I was listening to (Skysong) helped as it always reminds me of spring and warmer days ahead too.
A little foretaste of Spring Chrissy .... they look like crocuses with their saffron tips.
ReplyDeleteSuch wonderful blue !
ReplyDeletePlease have a good new week ahead.
Such pretty crocuses! I hope this really means Spring has sprung (we're waiting for ours still:).
ReplyDeleteLove how the angle [Eric's angle!!] enables you to capture depth-of-field, too, Chrissy. The colours are particularly vibrant, and the greens so vivid if the cold is still so cold.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your text to accompany your image on the equinox, as it gave me pause to think when our sunrise and sunset is right now. I really have no idea, so it is obviously not impacting me at all. We only go off Summer Time on 7th April, what with Easter being so early this year.
Thank you for your contribution to the Festival of the Equinox, and for your support generally in my trying to widen and deepen the theme days conducted by the CDP portal.
Fabulous colour heralding the change in the seasons Chrissy. Nice find and very apt for the Festival of the Equinox.
ReplyDeleteThese beautiful little jewels must give you hope that spring is close Chrissy, gorgeous image for this theme, your perspective is spot on.
ReplyDeleteAren't those early spring flowers are delight, brings such a cheer.
ReplyDeleteThe crocus here are ever so slightly ahead of yours, and oh so welcome! Color at last! And it's very nice to see buds and leaves - and I do see some in the background of your shot.
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ReplyDeleteHurrah for crocus! Mine are almost out of the ground... a day or so and they'll be here! What wonderful little heralds of the changing season.
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