Spring in Oregon

[Manu]

Thank you, Alice, for all this beautiful pictures ...

[alice44]

Thanks Manu
I really love taking pictures. It helps me see the world around me.


A flower (and some spider web) from in town


Red by alice_knitter, on Flickr

[alice44]

It is not yet spider time, but there are plenty of bees.


Bees by alice_knitter, on Flickr

[Lussi05]

Beautiful pictures Alice, thank you
It's plenty of wasps/bees here too. They have left their nests, "buzzing" around half dead. It's easy to get a wasp/bee sting if we are not aware

[alice44]

I have a thing about taking pictures of bees

Bee on a Mint flower in my backyard

Untitled by alice_knitter, on Flickr

I do not know what this flower is -- I need to figure it out. It may be invasive and it can definitely grow in a tiny crack in the pavement. -- This is in my parent's neighbourhood. I don't think there is any in mine.

Untitled by alice_knitter, on Flickr

[alice44]

Today -- Wednesday 06 Septermber -- I went to the beach, mostly to look for beach birds but we also just enjoyed the day -- sun and fog at the shore.

Beverly Beach

Untitled by alice_knitter, on Flickr

Later in the day and farther south
Ona Beach

Ona Beach by alice_knitter, on Flickr

[Bea]

Beautiful photos, alice

It seems you had a good day at the beach with great views!

A few days ago I saw here in BR TV program a travelling magazine and people were in Oregon, it was wonderful there!

I´ll go and have a look to remember which route they took .....

edit:

Got it now - this is the link to BR mediathek - sorry, in German only
http://mediathek-video.br.de/B7Mediathe ... ccode=both

The route was Portland - Pendleton - Baker City - Bend - Crater Lake - Florence - McMinnville

If somebody had asked me to pack my suitcase and go there immediately I would have said "YES"

[alice44]

Bea I am sorry I thought I had responded -- I do think Oregon is beautiful (if we could have European cities -- denser population and smaller it would be pretty near perfect.)

I had to look up Baker City because I do not know much about it although I once took an Arts Management class with a guy from there.

I did not find the right program -- but I watched one that seemed to be set in the Alps -- very beautiful

[alice44]

So although I am kind of admitting that it is now autumn.

I thought I might post a last spring/summer image or two -- taken not too long ago.


Pink Rose by alice_knitter, on Flickr


Red by alice_knitter, on Flickr

[alice44]

A Garden by alice_knitter, on Flickr

[alice44]

Spring 2013

10 Feb
This was about the first crocus to bloom (it is deep under the flowering quince, which is now in bloom)


Early Crocus by alice_knitter, on Flickr

Same day -- first buds of the Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles) above


Flowering Quince by alice_knitter, on Flickr

[Lussi05]

Beautiful pictures, Alice!!

[alice44]

Finally Some Up-dates
Oregon Spring 2016

This winter in the Willamette Valley was mild and wet.

Sweet Violets in my lawn




Hellebore in my yard

[alice44]

This one looks like winter (I think we use this for Christmas decoration) but this photo was taken this spring.




Flowering Quince

[alice44]

I have forgotten what these are -- they are a perennial, which dies back to nothing or almost nothing in the winter, then they grow to about a meter tall and make pretty delicate flowers. I was working hard to pull english ivy out of the bed.




another one I don't know what it is ... but I love it. It grows under my neighbour's Magnolia

[alice44]

More Flowering Quince ---

They bloom after most of the earliest bulbs are finished, but before most of the rest of the flowers and my hummingbirds love them -- so I love them too.

[alice44]

Magnolia
The previous flowering tree grows beneath this one.




This little tree lives across the street from me.




There are hundreds of dandelions in my yard.

[Lussi05]

Alice, your flower pictures are beautiful, and I love the color on the Flowering Quince - Thank you.