Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: sunny

Here's another extremly tiny flower, just 1/4" in size, but so beautiful! I really wanted to get an angle from below so I carefully dug the plant out of the ground and held it up in the air, bracing my camera and hand on a tree trunk to hold them both steady. I know it's kind of cheating, but this is the only way I could get this angle! By the way, this is a flower I've never seen on our property before, so I'm adding it to my official set. I have about 45 other flowers that I still need to add from this past summer and fall, but I may just have to add them as I got along this year! :D I think this is a kind of Sandwort flower but I wasn't able to properly identify it in the time I had to research.

I really liked the interesting petals on this blossom and thought it would be a very nice textured image as well! Below is the original picture (cropped) so you can see how different a texture can make your subject appear! Texture by Nasos3

I really love how this buttercup is reaching for the sky! You guys would really have fun watching me take these pictures...it's not easy getting this low angle under a short buttercup! :D Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau

Steve and I are trying to make an effort to get to bed earlier, and even though I didn't sleep well, I still woke up at just before 8am and looked outside to see the world covered with frost and gleaming in the bright morning sunshine! Oh YAY!!! I couldn't get dressed fast enough! I bundled up and bounced out the door, intent on FROSTED BUTTERCUPS!! But the second I left the house, I slammed on the brakes...HOLY SPARKLING DROPLETS EVERYWHERE, BATMAN!! Down I dropped and got dozens of totally insane frosty droplet pictures! I went around the meadow and got lots of other pictures before heading up to the hillside where I found what I was intent on! This Buttercup is bristling with just-melted frost, and I couldn't resist making it my pick of the day. I got some other pictures with frost on the blossoms, and I have one to show below! Julia Caroline (Ripley) Dorr (1825–1913) was an American author who published both prose and poetry. She was born at Charleston, South Carolina, but moved early in her life to New York City, then to Rutland, Vermont. There she married Hon. Seneca M. Dorr. Her earliest published writings appeared in 1848. Mrs. Dorr is best known, however, for volumes of thoughtful verse. A collected edition of her poems appeared in 1892. Wkipedia: Julia Caroline Dorr

Here's a Buttercup covered with frost, just about to open! I would have liked a bit more light to make this flower glow but I was out of luck--the sun wasn't going to hit this spot for a while (behind a tree) and my feet were freezing, but I loved how this bud was covered with crystals!

I was so excited to get outside today because I had a mission! I knew that at this time last year, there were beautiful Western Buttercups beginning to bloom on our hillside and today I was out to get some pictures! I also remember that when I saw the first Buttercup, it was our real beginning of spring. It's true...there is an explosion of growth that is only starting. Last year I was completely blown away by the countless varieties of plants and flowers in every color of the rainbow. From today until about June, it will be wall-to-wall flowers and beauty here! HOORAY!!! Explored on Flickr March 5, 2013. Highest position: #196.

Here's another view of the flower above, isn't it a pretty little thing?! It grows at most 1/2" off the ground and likes to hide between leaves, so it was a challenge to find blossoms that were open and unobscured by leaves!

I was walking back to the house today and I saw this Buttercup. I couldn't resist taking a picture, and when I saw it on the computer, I just had to process it. Exactly one picture, and it turned out just right!

Hooray!!! It's the first official day of Spring!!! This is a buttercup I found on the way back from our hike up to the top of the Upper Table Rock. I really loved the petals on this flower and thought this would make a nice textured image! :) Thanks to Nasos3 for the texture!

This is a picture I took about a month ago when we were still getting a lot of morning frost. I got so many nice images of buttercups but I didn't want to post them all at once. This is one of my favorites!

I'm in San Francisco for the week, visiting my dad, and this is Day 5! I am so sorry that I don't have time to leave comments while I'm gone, but I really appreciate every one of your visits and comments! They mean the world to me. *hugs* Miss you guys!!! About 30 minute's walk from my dad's house is a favorite tourist destination called Twin Peaks. It was an absolutely GORGEOUS day today, warm and sunny, so I made that my photo walk for the day! At the top of each of the two peaks, you can see a huge portion of San Francisco, including the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Transamerica Pyramid, Market Street all the way down to the Ferry Building at Embarcadero, and of course the 977-ft Sutro Tower which is on a nearby hill and is the Bay Area's most visible icon! You can also see Mt. Davidson from a distance (our "backyard")! To go along with the incredible view, Twin Peaks is parkland and there are flowers everywhere! What a stunning show it was, and I feel so lucky because a sunny day like this is very uncommon in San Francisco! HOORAY!!! :) I'm also very happy that Day 100 of my 365 Project celebrates my home town!!! YAYYYY!!! Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology"). Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and he also served for a time on the California Arts Council. Wikipedia: Gary Snyder