Cherry blossom

Stunning shot. :))

You wait 'til I've worked out how to use the new camera!

Superb shot Gattina - that is just gorgeous :)

Thank you both!

there's something particularly glowing about white cherry blossom - is it scented?

Just wonderful,Gattina..our sky is like that too...for now ! :o)

superb picture Gattina !!:))

Isn't it good G ? :) That should be in my blog

A beautiful picture.

Beautiful !

You just can't help smiling, can you, every time you look at this?! :)))

the white against the blue is a dazzling contrast and enahnces the richness of both colours - but then, you have an artist's soul, Gattina!

You old smoothie, Fran. You can't really go wrong photographing nature, can you? I'm just waiting for all the apple blossom to open - it seems awfully early this year.

lol if you think one can't go wrong photographing nature, you should see the pics I've had to delete!

the seasons still seem to be in flux; time was spring didn't really show itself till April, and late April at that.

We were thinking about it, we virtually had an incredibly long, warm autumn which lasted until the last week in January, then pretty much the whole of February was like an arctic winter - the worst on record, and since the first week in March, we have suddenly been afforded such glorious, warm weather, that it is like being plunged suddenly into an English summer. We noticed yesterday, though, there are still tiny remnants of grubby, compacted snow by the roadside in some places, despite temperatures in the high twenties for the last three weeks. Mad! It's 27°c out there right now. How are flora and fauna keeping up?

we seem to have concentrated seasons, shorter but deeper. Given enough time to adapt, nature will - given enough time!

I've just stopped following a "discussion" on a review of an Amazon book on climate change - apparently one has to have a degree as a climatologist to register an opinion, and I don't. They're still arguing that it's all a con, that there's no such thing. sure they'll keep on arguing as the rising waters close over their heads.

I think a measure of climate change has been there since the first big bang - think of the ice ages, both big and little - no pollution or holes in the ozone layer then, We just have global exchange of information and records and sales-hungry alarmist press to scare people with. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I just think it always has. Man and his wicked ways weren't around to wipe out the dinosaurs, but I don't think we're doing all we might to limit the damage.

taht was the point I was trying to make in that discussion: there's always been climate change, and often it's been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than it is now; but we're not helping the situation with the amount of pollution we're putting into the atmospehere and the seas - not to metnion the shredded ozone layer!

but now we know that nothing is local - tipping some gunge into a river might have been acceptable in the old days, because the effects were taken far away; we now know that "local" is planet-wide.

but there's money to be made from pushing the climate change button, as well as denying it, and that's going to be the ruling factor, sadly.

As in nearly everything, Fran..... (Gosh, I'm turning into a very cynical old woman - bitter and twisted)

but not excessively so, dear! business follows the dollar, even if that means leaving earth in shreds.

There's a book called Toxic Sludge is Good For You, can't remember who wrote it but shouldn't be too many books with that title! got me so angry with multinational companies not taking simple precautions to prorect people, cos that'd cost a penny more per million units and decrease profts by that much.

Have you read Stark, by Ben Elton? it's on that theme - a bit preachy, but then it was his first; he's toned down his more obvious preaching since. Good read, though, if you can get past that

Wonderful picture, beautiful white blossom against a clear blue sky!

Sadly, it's not like that any more - blossom all blown off, a miserably cold temperature and lots of rain forecast for the next fortnight. Still, like the UK, we need the water, so I shan't complain, just put another log on the fire.