The Four Seasons - please post your pics

I love the idea of this thread, Katja! I wish I had something more to contribute, but we had a hard freeze for several days after several warm ones and all the flowering stuff froze. A few things are just now starting to bloom again and a lot of things won't bloom again this year. I did get the following pictures at the park yesterday. I don't know what kinds of flowers they are, I just saw them growing at the base of some of the trees and had to take a picture! :D (I do know that the yellow ones aren't dandelions, though.)

I took this one on the 5th of May.

It's on the Little Tennessee River at the base of Fontana Dam in the Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina. It had just quit raining and a nice low level of fog was rolling in on the fisherman.

I'll post a link to the pic since it's a little big.

http://saturncraze.net/dragon%20may%202007/slides/DSCF4214.JPG

The wood where we go dog walking are a mass of Bluebells at the moment. Here are just a couple of the pics we took.

Man, this is beautiful, I love all the pics! :lol:

Every time I walk my dogs in my local park I regret that I have not taken my camera because the views of the woods, the river (with the ducks and other birds) and the island reserve are sometimes breath-taking, even though it is a narrow park - but my dogs can be very naughty and if I stopped to take a pic they would disappear, and when they do that it can take me a long time to get them to come back to me!

This is my " 4 seasons" ; Sand, Surf , and Sea and my well loved, well worn, and In Season all year Birkenstocks LOL. Also, what would Florida be without Palm Trees :)

Dreamer

that sums up perfection for me ! the beach & royal palms! I would love to see that every day of my life!

Great idea Katja! ... and a great pic.

Jegster, Beth, Dreamer and Sheila it's lovely to see all the different places. Sheila, I would love to walk in 'bluebell wood' :D

Here's my offering. These were taken a while ago when I went to a race in New Hampshire. Pictures are from the Maine coast and the light house is the Portland Head light house. Was either Sept or Oct when I took them.

I have a few pictures from all 4 seasons.
katja- Thats a beautiful picture, and this is a great idea for a thread.
I love the rest of the pictures I love fog, bluebells, lighthouses and of course palm trees

:D . Then again I love everything Nature has to offer.

Spring. Click link for larger picture.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g76/KandM0702/africam/march23055.jpg

Summer on a Florida beach. Click link for larger picture.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g76/KandM0702/africam/DA008.jpg

Fall. Click link for larger picture.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g76/KandM0702/africam/S4028183.jpg

Winter. Click link for larger picture.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g76/KandM0702/africam/clouds.jpg

Great topic :D So many beautiful pictures guys :D

Living in the Netherlands I could post one picture four times, once for every season. :roll:

Spring

Storms broke down this 200+ year old tree last week. Notice how tiny the people on the left are.

Summer

Autumn

Winter

My daughter took this picture a couple of days ago of a neighbor's rose:

And this morning on my walk through the park I took this one of a clover flower:

My lily will be blooming soon, so I can get a nice picture of it then. And I hope to get out to my grandma's house soon before her irises have stopped blooming to photograph those.

I got a few more pictures of flowers as I walked the last couple of days...

Honeysuckle (which smells soooo wonderful!)

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Daisy

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and something I don't know the name of. :lol: But it was pretty!

And last but not least...

Peonies

I love the wind

In Flanders' field the poppy's will always grow

Nothing promises the warmth of summer better than yellow flowers.

I noticed a few of you are posting flower pictures, so here are some of mine.

I took this today, they are flowers on a Papaya tree.

Amaryllis, I love these flowers.

Heliopsis, in my moms garden.

Thank you Wild Dreamer.

Here are some more.

Hibiscus flower in the green house where my mom works.

Plumeria, or Frangipani. Its a beautiful flower and they look almost fake.

Thank you Wild Dreamer for helping :)

Hi Faeriedust, Very nice photos ! The Pink flower is a Plumeria, or Frangipani. It is one of the flowers commonly used in making Hawaiian Leis :D . The unknown tree looks to be a Papaya, and yes the fruits do kind of resemble a gree coconut the way they grow in clusters. Your photos made me homesick for So Miami, I used to have all those plants in my garden there :D .
Dreamer

Our Place in Western North Carolina last October, we only get to see it twice a year :cry:

Our Mountain...well at least 10.5 acres of it :wink:

Our Smoke House :D

Our front Meadow

Lake Glenville

How beautiful Shortcut, can I visit? :lol:
What is a smoke house?

Thank you for the compliment and the identification Wild dreamer. The flowers here are so different from what I'm used to in New jersey... I hardly know what any of them are here but they are so beautiful and exotic. I will add more pictures once I get them on my new computer and take more :D

It's for Smoking meat....Country Ham :D Yumm

The bottom is made of stone and it stays very cool and you hang you meat in there to cure after it's been salted.

We don't use it, the previous owners used it as a dog house :? I love taking pictures of it and I have done a pastel of it as well.

Wow - there are many wonderful pictures in this topic! :D
Thanks to everyone who posted pics. I enjoyed seeing them all.

It would be great if we could keep this topic "alive". :D

The ravine we walk through every morning to take our daughter to school.

Part of our Rainforest on the Mountain :D

This is the path up to our spring... does not look very steep....

....but it is :shock:

View from the top, love the dragonfly :D

Shortcut- That picture of the rose is beautiful its a great shot. Your property seems like a wilderness paradise :D

Thanks :wink:

On the road to go camping at a preserve in central Forida I hope to get some pic's this weekend.
Later

Some tree near my office (taken with the camera in my cell phone).

plum tree in our yard humming birds nest in it

summer brings forest fire,s and we have the only 2 largest water

bombers in the world they can carry a box car full of water