Back in January of this year, Karma (Karma’s When I Feel Like It Blog) suggested a four seasons photo hunt. I decided to include four more “seasons,” taking photos on Groundhog Day, May Day, Lammas Day and Halloween, which fall between the solstices and equinoxes. I will come back and add the final picture to this post when we get to the winter solstice.
Courtyard Gardens
North Carolina Botanical Garden
[to be added soon ~ Winter Solstice]
What a great idea! I think the Spring Equinox might be my favorite of this bunch, though. There’s something so promising about the splendor of the rest of the year when you look at these budding trees. Normally, of course, Fall is my favorite season, but I think I’d miss terribly not seeing those wild Fall colors!
The spring season down here seems extra long and magical and much more enchanting than the autumn, which is pretty dull from my New England frame of reference. Spring will be my favorite season down here, but my heart’s favorite season will always be the fall colors back home in Connecticut! I do miss them!!!
Love this! It is so interesting to watch a landscape through the seasons.
Thank you, Eliza! The changes can be pretty striking, especially since they’re so gradual.
I absolutely love this, Barbara! Your companion and your dedication that both of you two have is remarkable!!
Now if Tim would dress up as Santa for that lonely bench in the final Winter Solstice photo, I would become a believer, again. That would be magical! ❤️
Thank you so much, Teri! It’s been fun, especially since I had no idea what the changes would look like ahead of time. Tim does spend a lot of time on that bench, waiting patiently as I hone in on a bird, bee or butterfly. I’m not sure he’d be inclined to dress up as Santa, though! ❤️
Oh, I really didn’t think Tim would dress up as Santa, but I hope that you got a chuckle!
What a nice collection of photos Barbara! It’s nice to see how Mother Nature lends a hand in helping the landscape thrive as the seasons progress. So much bright green in the photos. Our trees are past peak now and lots of leaves have fluttered to the ground with this incessant wind we have been having, so it is starting to look blah out there. We have not had a hard freeze, so no Indian Summer yet I did the same thing with Council Point Park standing at the beginning of the perimeter path a few years ago; it was fund to do.
Thank you, Linda! We haven’t had an Indian Summer down here either because we haven’t had a frost or a freeze yet. The meteorologists are going on and on about it on the news. Every day in November so far the temperature has been above or way above normal. We even had a couple of days in the 80s. Sigh. Even though the fall colors down here are rather dull, the green in the other seasons is truly spectacular. One of our doctors is on the sixth floor and I love looking out the window over the lovely green tree canopy which seems to go on for miles.
We did have a cold day today and I saw some frost on the grass on my walk, but it was not a hard freeze and the house where I admire his landscaping so much, has all his large pots of pink geraniums blooming away and nothing looks bedraggled, including all his mums. We have a heavy rain starting overnight and sporadic rain tomorrow, so they might not be as cheery looking after that. Our lawns are green like April and very lush. You and I think alike as I noticed it was green everywhere in your photos and how nice that was. I’ll bet the humid air keeps those leaves looking so good fresh – here they get parched looking by Summer’s end.
What fun! The photos vividly show the changing season. This series of photos makes me think that I should try to remember to take photos from the same spot in my backyard numerous times across the year.
It was fun, Sheryl, and I’m already scouting out a spot to do another series for next year. 🙂 You’re lucky to have a spot in your backyard that will work — I’ve got too many trees in mine.