Tag: New England Winter
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Enjoying My Winter View
I snapped this photo on New Year’s Day–Just before I took down the Christmas tree. I so enjoyed the view of the tree, the deck containers filled with winter greens, and the forest landscape beyond. I also like the way the railing pickets’ shadows and the lower containers’ foliage create patterns on the deck. And…
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Solstice Sky–A New England Winter Vision
Inspired, I snapped this enchantingly beautiful sky. Conversing with a friend in the Historic Town Center in Sudbury, Massachusetts I happened to look up and out, and was stopped in my tracks by the sky’s stunning beauty. New England offers such beautiful skies. Especially, I love the crisp and brilliantly clear night skies at this…
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this Hellebore thinks It’s England, not NEW England
Winter Solstice Day I noticed this hellebore in my front garden. But it felt more like a discovery as it’s fully budded and this in not England where they bloom at this time of year. Because it was such an unusually warm day–50 degrees to start the day–I took the opportunity to cut back my…
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Boston Flower Show
Thoroughly enjoyed my morning at the Boston Flower Show, so much lovely color to our winter starved eyes. Okay, I’m talking color and tons of flowers, yet the image I chose displays huge stones and plantings to create a wonderful garden room. Note the suggested walls, windows, and floor. And this landscape’s got a little of everything– a deciduous…
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Ochids & Witch Hazel-Two different Winter Flowering Plants
An unlikely combination, but the welcoming cheer of early blooming Witch Hazel ‘Arnold’s Promise’ greets me outside, while the white orchids inside provide a note of grace. Note that the green leaves of the broad-leaf evergreen Rhododendron provides contrast so I can “see” the wonderful yellow flowers of the Hamamelis. In earlier winters,…
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Gray, White, Black
Yesterday while visiting the new Museum of Fine Arts wing in Boston, I saw a fabulous photo of tombstones. While the inspiration photo was much more amazing , my photo gives a hint of the possibilities of gray, white, and black forms seen in a winter landscape. It’s one I pass by daily in…
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Animal Tracks in my Snow
As I wrote the headline, Shirley Temple’s voice singing “Animal Crackers in My Soup” rang in my head. Amazing. Where did that come from? Also amazing is Mark Wuredel’s photo from his Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) exhibition http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/117-imprints_photographs_by_mark_ruwedel “Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel” that I saw last week. Seeing it changed the way I look at landscape.…
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Ice patterns
Ice pieces create amazing patterns. Especially, since the next day–there were none. And the day I arrived— the water area was solid white during that big snow storm last week.
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Walls of Snow cover my snow flowers!
When I took this photo, I could still see the low-growing foundation plants. Now walls of snow cover all the plants in the entry garden. However, you might have taller plants that capture and create snow flowers. So… Years ago, a passage in a novel described a snow festival in a Japanese village that celebrated “Snow Flowers”.…
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Snow, Snow, and more Snow
I’m glad I filled the feeders yesterday. Snow is falling thick and fast, but the birds are active. Thankfully, I can still be charmed by birds clustering and nudging each other at the bird seed dispensers! Meanwhile, inside I’m enjoying the newly opened–can you believe it–snow white!– Amarylis. Her name is ‘Alfresco’ . Beautiful isn’t it?