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  • World’s smallest pineapple?

    World’s smallest pineapple?

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    Spotted on walk home from school.. does it belong to a Smurf? Nope, turns out its the remains of flowers that are up in pine trees, which are responsible for belching out that green dust. More info and visuals (than you ever needed) are here. Neat to see up close, but man do I hate…

  • Why’d the turtle cross the road?

    Why’d the turtle cross the road?

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    Dunno! We’re not really close to water so it made very little sense. I think its the first turtle I’ve seen at the house, ever. Further down the road though – monster snapping turtles are seen every spring. Like as big as a coffee table. Maybe this one’s just looking for a safer place to…

  • Azalea ready to pop

    Azalea ready to pop

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    Many years ago, this miniature azalea was planted along the front walk. For years it has barely clung to life – its been eaten, stepped on, subject to drought and over watering, brutal winters and just about everything else a tiny shrub could endure. This spring it has grown and started blooming more than we’ve…

  • Lilacs

    Lilacs

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    I don’t have any such blooms here, but at the end of the street there is a house with really impressive old flowering shrubs. Including the biggest rhododendron you could imagine. Nice lilacs there – and Google Photos decided to make them even more colorful. The actual photo isn’t quite as nice:

  • Volunteer Pansy

    Volunteer Pansy

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    Last year we received a very nice potted arrangement of pansies from a neighbor. It was left to its own devices and now there are some tiny little pansies popping up around the patio. No complaints here, they are really adding a nice bit of color in every corner that .. is lacking. Speaking of…

  • Drooping Tulips

    Drooping Tulips

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    A rainy day suddenly changed the trajectory of some of these tulips. And it got worse though the day – two of them even snapped in half (lower right). Sheesh.

  • Good Season

    Good Season

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    The tulips thrived this Spring. Maybe weather, maybe me slightly losing my marbles and spraying that rotten egg spray daily to keep the rodents away. Or both!

  • Springy Rainbow

    Springy Rainbow

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    And to really emphasize the double rainbow here: I applied the “luminous” effect in Google Photos.

  • Bleeding Hearts

    Bleeding Hearts

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    What a dramatic flower name – but it does describe them pretty well.

  • Fancy Tulip

    Fancy Tulip

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    Not much more to say, just a unique tulip in the mix.

  • The magic of editing

    The magic of editing

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    pete
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    Google Photos has a neat feature, where once in a while it chooses some of your uploads to “stylize” and really spice them up with after-effects. If you look at the result on its own, you might think “wow, that was a great picture!”, though compared to the actual shot, you’ll take that right back.…

  • Squirrel Crimes

    Squirrel Crimes

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    Spring is absurdly tense lately, having planted a pile of tulip bulbs in the front beds. Thinking it would be a nice sight for passerby’s, the flowers have become a bit of an obsession. Not because I’m that avid of a gardener.. but because the SQUIRRELS have taken a liking to ripping the flowers off…