One of my fave tulips just getting started, Banja Luka

#BloomScrolling #flowers #spring

I don't divide a year into four seasons, instead I notice the change through blossoms. The blossoms don't follow a chronological order. They overlap, reverse, even repeat sometimes. Each mountainside has its own climate. The rocks can be burning hot on one side and covered with snow on the other. Here are the blossoms of a climate that's warming up:
1. Crocus time is cool and crispy. The blossoms can poke directly from the snow.
2. Primroses come after crocuses, although sometimes they meet each other on the same slope. Then crocuses dissolve while primroses stay. The air is warmer and it smells of soil and plants.
3. Anemone time means you can be confident it's warm on their field. You might need sunscreen, and even look for shadows to chill in.
4. Hyacinths arrive when you start keeping the solar zenith in mind, and making sure you've got your cap on. The bees are everywhere, and the air is so sweet that you want to eat it with a spoon.

#flowers #blossom #spring #weather #nature #outdoors #hiking #climate #mountains #plants #crocus #primrose #anemone #hyacinth

Pardon my over-posting today, but I just wanted to share this beautiful visitor at home on this last day (somewhere already) of summer.

#photography #FujiFilm #nature #butterfly #Insects #lantana #flowers

Photobombed 😁

#Flora #Spain #Nature #Photography #Botany #BloomScrolling #Andalucia #Flowers

ENTRANCED
I love to read and every once in a while, I find a book that I cannot put down, no matter what is happening around me. For those of you who have ever been lucky enough to encounter this transcendent state of being, this drawing is for you! 😀 Imagine curled up in your favorite comfy chair, with a hot cup of tea and plate of delicious cookies nearby. All of your "friends" surround you and you have found that peaceful space, entranced with the story before you.

This artwork is NOW AVAILABLE in my Redbubble shop:
redbubble.com/people/gretchenk…

(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.

#art #artist #illustration #illustrator #spiritual #drawing #paintings #noAI #childrensbooks #fineart #artwork #landscape #nature #childrensart #artforchildren #interiordecor #flowers #mastoart #art #artistsonmastodon #artlover #artlovers #decor #popart #artnet #artlover #artlovers #handmade #supportthearts #monsters #monster #creature #friend #love #reading #bookart #childrensbooksillustration

Beauty and nature’s resilience are at the core of Vasilisa Romanenko’s lush paintings. 🍊 🌼

thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/vas…

#painting #flowers #birds #pattern #portraits

I thought I’d post something bright and colourful for my first post over here!

#art #illustration #nature #flowers

The closer you look, the deeper the mystery, the deeper the beauty.

#photography #flowers

Fox Gloves
By Jennifer Lommers ©

jenniferlommers.com

#art #nature #flowers

Various turtle shell patterns.
By #AnimalPhotography

#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Photography #Photographer #Video #Science

Good morning. Summer surprise when I found this Passion Flower on the vines along the side of the house I’m staying in for this trip.

#Summer #photography #Flowers #passionflower #Chicago #bloomscrolling #Today

I took these while walking this morning in the park that I usually go for running every morning. It's fascinating how everything looks new and different when you only change your perspective.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

#perspective #run #walk #flowers

"The earth laughs in flowers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Fuchsia #Flowers #Florespondence #FlowerPhotography #FlowersOfMastodon #BloomScrolling
#Nature #NaturePhotography #photography

You: You haven't spent your Sunday chasing bees round the garden with your camera then drawing on the photos have you?

Me: What?! That sounds like a foolish way to waste an afternoon!

Also me: Yes, yes I have.

#nature #photography #flowers #bees #silly #drawing

A colleague of mine created a collection of unique cutout images with precise high quality assets (by combing several hundred images into a high resolution image to magnify across the full "depth of field").

Please visit him
itemcreationstudio.com/en/

#biodiversity #flowers #photography #mosstodon

Good morning, friends. 🌻🌼🌺

I mentioned that yesterday, I went to a quilt show to take photographs. There were many more people there than I imagined that there would be - I generally don't like crowds. It wasn't lost on me that I was the only man there - at least at that time. But I while I took photos, I watched the people there and the thing that impressed me the most was how happy they were.

Over a hundred quilts were on display and there were various booths selling fabric, quilted bags, etc.

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end—it's not the final curtain—it's really in the doing it and loving what you're doing." —Ralph Lauren

#photo #photography #photographer #morning #flowers #lily #quilts #happiness