Flowers on the balcony

Violets and pansies in windowboxes on the balcony.

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From my balcony

Edelweiss among the petunias

Edelweiss in front of my custom-bred petunias.

Edelweiss about to bloom

Edelweiss budding

The view from my balcony, May 7, 2013

Here’s the view from my balcony this afternoon.

View from my balcony, 7 May 2013

Also, some views of my balcony garden.

White petunias on the windowsill

And some more petunias about to bloom very soon:

Blue Star petunias about to bloom

The humble petunia:  so much happiness in such a small, cheap, easy-to-grow package.

Artwork of the Day: Charlotte Segal

Black Orchid #2 Blue Violet, oil on canvas by Charlotte Segal.  Source

I like the nocturnal color palette.

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Primroses

Today I’ve been invited to Brezice again to visit Ozara.  They’ll be picking up trash along the road,  and I will support them in this unglamorous but environmentally friendly task.

In the meantime, I leave you with one of my recent experiments in close-up floral photography.   This one turned out fairly well in spite of my rotten little camera.

I loved primroses even before I knew what they were called.  They aren’t native to the western U.S., so when I came to Europe I had never seen them before.  The way they suddenly appear in the grass and turn it into what looks like a green and yellow Persian carpet is magical.

Primroses a-bloom in the woods

Spring flowers

No time to post, but here are some spring flowers I saw yesterday.

Spring flowers pushing up through old leaves