This sunday was clear and quite warm, especially considering the still early date. We don't consider ourselves safe from snow until late in May, and this was a month earlier than that, but was definitely shorts and tee-shirt weather. I took a few pictures of the same things that I have snow-filled pictures of from January 10th, so that I can set up comparisons. Perhaps actually sequences will come from this.
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Remember the little tree buried in the snow? Well it is out now. |
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The snow-filled poplars are just starting to bud out, but are still too far away. |
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The park entrance is perhaps more inviting now? |
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The trio of birch trees don't have leaves yet, but will soon. |
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The main path also has a distinctly different look without 2 feet of snow on it. |
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A shot I don't have from winter is this one of the trail leading up to the hollow. |
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Here's the spring shot of the hollow itself. |
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And another of the other side of the hollow. After lots of snow, I liked the colours of this one so much that I made a backdrop of it. It's on this backdrop page. |
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Along the way I passed one of the small ponds that can be found, but it shows up quite poorly - sorry! I didn't see any ducks on that one, but I have on other occasions. |
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From a lookout point that I usually go to, I took a shot of home. |
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From the same lookout point, looking the other way, is downtown. |
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I'm always amused by the dangly things that one kind of trees get in the spring. |
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They look to me like little aliens on the branches (OK, so I'm being silly!) |
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A quite diffent kind of flower shows at this time of year on another type of tree. |
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I also tried a closeup of a new leaves just coming out. |
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Here's one more random shot that was supposed to show lots of colours. |