garden finds

A beautiful and colourful collection...

Thank you, Udo. Have a nice day!

Can I ask where do you live?
Enjoy little things your garden provide, it is a nice photo you composed*************

Hi, Isobel. I live in Florence, Italy, and we are on lockdown, confined at home until April 3rd (at least) in an effort to slow down the corona virus epidemic. I work from home and we can go out only to get food or medicines. Thank you for the kind comment!

I think it will soon be the same here, it is arriving in Spain already. I realize I am happy to live far from big towns... and have a secondary house in the middle of nowhere.
Rimanete al sicuro...

Lovely natural still life.
Stay safe and healthy.

Thanks, Jaap. Doing my very best. It's going to take everybody's efforts and discipline to beat this darn virus!

C'est pas grave ce confinement,ça va passer et heureusement que vous avez un jardin qui vous rapproche de la nature et de découvrir pas mal de nouveautés qui passent inaperçues en temps normal...Profitez de votre jardin et savourer ces instants.
Bonne semaine.

Merci, Malik. You are right. This will pass and spring in the garden is not so bad. Have a good week!

They are pretty...and it is wonderful to have a garden while you are imprisoned, Annalia.
Keep well!

Yes, as prisons go I think I am pretty much at the Hilton! :D Thanks for stopping by.

Lovely presentation Annalia, Yes we (Over 70s) are being asked to go into 4 months of isolation, I just think of all those women with children fleeing the bombs in Syria with no where to go and nobody wanting them. Makes my self isolation painless.

You are absolutely right, HappySnapper.

Lovely composition!

Thank you, James. Have a nice evening!

I look forward to the day when such lovely living things will be apparent in my garden. The snow there is still between two and three metres high.

Stay safe. I hope your seclusion ends soon.

Sorry for the late reply, Justfolk. Working from home means I have to requisition the home computer for 8 hours a day and, when I am done, give it over to my husband so he can have some time on it. That leaves me little opportunity for photo processing and for "playing" here on ipernity. :(
We hardly ever get snow here in Florence and the season of course is much further along here. But your time for spring images will come! Thanks for stopping by.

A beautiful collection, Annalia. We've decided it's prudent for us to go into self isolation as far as possible and just today I was thinking it may well be useful to grow some vegies to help with catering.

I think that's wise, George. And by keeping yourselves out of harm's way you also contribute to denying the darn virus the chance to spread. My garden is on the north side and not favourably placed for growing vegetables, unfortunately. But if yours is, you should definitely try. It's amazing how much satisfaction one gets out of seeing things grow and homegrown veggies just seem to taste so much better!
Good luck with everything.

thuis kun je ook mooie fotos schieten Annalia

Very true, Fred! It's an opportunity for being creative with little commonplace things!
Thanks for your comment and take care!

This is a beautiful picture of many of nature's wonderful gifts. I'm just the same, I can always keep busy at home with a camera, and the way things are at the moment, it's important for us to have our hobbies and be able to talk to other people online. Stay safe!

Thank you for stopping by, Raven. You are completely right. And, in a sense, this brings home to me that the homey, everyday things can also make good subjects. Just have to practice that most essential trait for a photographer: being observant!

si Annalia.
bella questa foto con tutti questi pezzettini di primavera.
abbi cura di te!

Ciao, Annemarie. Anche tu. Ci sono i momenti in cui mi si spezza il cuore pensando alle persone ospedalizzate che non possono nemmeno avere i loro cari vicino, ma altri in cui vedo i vicini che chiacchierano dalla finestra, qualcuno mette su l'inno di Mameli e troviamo il modo di sostenerci a vicenda. Sono abbastanza in là con gli anni da aver avuto genitori che hanno vissuto l'ultima guerra mondiale e in questo periodo spesso penso ai loro racconti: storie di coprifuoco, di amici e persone care uccise, di difficoltà di approvvigionamento, di mercato nero ma anche di coraggio e perfino di eroismo. In un certo senso siamo anche noi in guerra, contro un nemico invisibile. Se restiamo uniti anche questa volta ce la faremo.

Oui j'aime bien aussi !

What a beautiful composition, I really love it!
Kind regards, Karin