Maple blossom

Maple blossom looks like a shy bride dressing silk gown and wearing silver jewelery.

In sunset:

Early spring flowers

I can see beautiful crocuses through the window in my lab:

Crocus is the herald of spring. People feel excited on its visiting and eventually, the warm spring is coming:

Maple is going to blossom soon:

Yes...I know, it will be snow flurry tomorrow... but anyway, it is spring.

Last color of autumn

After several windy days, the whole world is half dead with empty branches. I feel lucky that we traveled to some nearby small towns last weekend and captured the last color of this autumn.

Most colorful spots are along the highway, which do upset me a lot. I tried to shoot, but you know, while the car is running, sigh... it is hard.

Here is my most satisfacting pic, at least it is not blurred lol:

　

Blair River located in Amherst:

　

Oxford, famous for its wild blue berry:

　

Pugwash, a town with bilingual street signs -- English and Gaelic:

　

Wallace, some spots are really amazing, but just nowhere to park :(

　

A very beautiful road (Lake Road) located in Truro, where there are broad blueberry fields:

　

Wentworth Provincial Park, which was absolutely an surprise for us. We knew nothing about this park before, but, see, saving the last for the best:

　

　

　

What a reflection:

　

Good Morning, Sackville!

I am a giant LOL

Autumn

Maple

　

　

　

Circle of life in winter

Most people say, plants stop growing during winter. I never doubt about that until this winter. I moved from north to south east this summer, so that I get a chance to hug warmer winter. Yesterday I took a walk, surprisedly, I saw new-born buds, twigs and even flowers. Unbelievable! Fortunately, my camera was with me -- see, I shot something beautiful:

In this picture, there are red flower buds of Silver Maple clustered along the silky twig; Basswood seeds, catkins of Ironwood together with buds on brown twigs:

Again, Basswood (Linden) seeds, overwintering leaves, and buds:

What a lucky pine tree, living in the arm of Ironwood with shreddy bark:

I never see this type of species before. I searched a lot and eventually got its name: Lichen