RHH's photos with the keyword: catkins

Spring seems far away with the cold, wet and miserable weather we are having, but these willow catkins are a reminder that it will come. They were photographed in the lane that runs around and behind our home and which we often walk.

Willow catkins and a promise of spring, though it seems far away at the moment.

These willow catkins were photographed in the lane that runs behind our home. Note the spider at the top.

I am not sure what shrub or tree these belong to, probably Gray Alder, but they were photographed in the dunes at Little Sable Point in Silver Lake State Park when we were there to photograph the sunset.

We didn't see the spider but he must have been very busy on these Willow catkins, they and he other recent sigsn of spring.

These emerging Aspen catkins were the only sign of spring we were able to find until last week Friday when we found our first wildflower. We probably would not even have noticed these except that we have waited so long for spring and were watching for any sign of its coming.

Photographed along the Harding Icefields trail in the Exit Glacier area of Kenai Fjords National Park, these willow catkins were still fresh at higher elevations. Fizgig has identified these as Salix bebbiana, Bebb's Willow.