Category: spring

Willow

2009-03-30
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Among other trees and flowers, the willows are blossoming to, making the walk near a lake into a beautiful experience.

Willow in spring

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Buds

2009-03-30
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We are into the astronomic spring already, the bulbs (like this magnolia from my garden) are ready to explode, they need probably one or more hot sunny days, not the cloudy today. But there is a good thing to that: I have not managed to uplaod al ths shots from yesterday in the park…

Buds in my garden, waiting for the spring

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Spring yellow flowers

2009-03-29
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I could use some help from my readers, even if those flowers, probably the first trees blossoming in the spring, are practically everywhere, including in my garden, where I took the shoot, I don’t know their name, not the Romanian name and not the English name.

Update: thanks to a comment on flickr, I learned the name: "Forsythia" in English respectively "Forsiția" in Romanian

Yellow flowers

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Waiting to blossom

2009-03-20
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I hate this ugly and cold weather: the vegetation is waiting to blossom, look at this tree from my garden, and is held back by the low temperatures… But I guess there is also an upside for this: I have in my mind some spring photos for which I lack the means to take at the moment (but the situation does not appear to be changing in the following weeks, so is not much of an upside).

Waiting to Blossom

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More crocus: from my garden

2009-03-17
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A beatutiful early spring Sunday afternoon: sun, warmth, flowers, even bees just good to continue shooting spring flowers with outdoor close-ups from my garden.

Yellow and Purple Crocus / Brinduse Galbene si Mov

Purple Crocus / Brinduse Mov and a Bee

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White crocus / Brinduse albe

2009-03-16
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Continuing the spring celebration with macro shots of spring flowers, here is the colse-up of a white crocus (Romanian: Brindusa alba) from the Herastrau Park.

White Crocus / Brinduse Albe

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Spring flowers: Viola Odorata/ Garden Violet/ Toporasi

2009-03-12
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Yet another macro of an early spring flower taken from my garden. Not that great of a shot, I plan to try again.

Viola Odorata / Garden Violet / Toporasi

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Spring flowers: Crocus (Brinduse)

2009-03-04
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I only saw those flowers blossoming in my garden only in the early spring, just after the snowdrops and they are a joyful spot of color in any garden.

Crocus / Brîndușă

And if the photo above was taken in the controlled conditions with tripod and such, I also have a version from their natural state and hand-hold camera:

Crocus / Brîndușe

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Martisoare Fair at the Peasant Museum

2009-03-02
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Beyond selling martisoare at practically every street corner, at the Peasant Museum was organized a fair: the good part was that in a sea of kitsches, you were able to find some authentic stuff, the bad part is that the place was overly crowded.

Tirg de martisoare:

It was a good opportunity to see what the martisor originally was: a silver coin on a red string, a protective amulet to protect the children after the cold season, not the hypocrite gift you have to give to all women around you.

Tirg de martisoare:

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Martisor and the city

2009-03-01
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Saturday was the last day of the calendar winter, but it was a very nice, sunny day and the last chance for people to spend their money on the shitty Romanian tradition of Mărțișor, so the city was full with people selling and buying martisoare and also with photographers.

Martisoare in Bucharest

I am not sure if the photographers were out to catch the martisor commerce or just for the beautiful day …or maybe for both, but practically the city was full of people with cameras, including me. Only that I had also a secondary target: a nautical salon (more on that later).

Martisoare in Bucharest

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