Author: Stan Deatherage | Published: December 31st, 2009

Beginning in Spring, We Stroll Through Winter

    In this second article, we will examine a more familiar world - the one within our everyday reach. The world where I step from my sheltering abode, and explore the realm that exists upon my property, whether I am there to witness it or not, it wakes upon the optimism of the rising sun, and feeds upon what it needs to exist.

    When I no longer exist within this this plane of my existence, this environment of revolving color and smaller living beings will continue. Hopefully someone else will be around to record it, because we all need to be reminded of God's bountiful beauty, and contiunue to search within our own boundaries to discover it.

    One of the earliest flowers to bloom in early spring are from the abundant wisteria vines that wraps around some of my camellia bushes, as this one did.

    The lasting burst of color from a tall camellia bush in early spring reminds me that the azaleas will soon be blooming.

http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/uploads/neighboring_counties/beaufort_county/every_picture_ii/mac_swood_041005_7.06_pm_630_pxlw.jpg     I love the hearty blossoms of the this southern bush - the camellia.

http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/uploads/neighboring_counties/beaufort_county/every_picture_ii/mac_swood_041005_9.64_am_630_pxlw.jpg     One of the many varieties camellia bushes, which are rich in color and blossoms, that populate my yard.

    A thin honeybee seeking some pollen from this dogwood blossom.

    Pollen is the delicacy of the day as this pollen laden bumblebee leaves this azalea in search of other blossoms to quench his insatiable appetite for the life sustaining nectar.

    This beautiful white azalea, unraveling its beautiful blossom in early spring, may be the next destination for the ravenous bumblebee.

    It will not be long before this spreading azalea will be pollinated.

    This rain swollen lichen enjoys its host, the outstretched limb of the old dogwood tree near my backdoor, here in mid summer after an all night steady rain.

    After a similar fine summer rain a tree frog comes down to sun himself, as he perches upon a waxy leaf of the flowers that my wife planted in a pot on my rear deck.

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