SPRING!

I know that Spring is coming to an end, but that is no reason not to share some Spring photo's from local areas!


Thornbury:

Carlton:  Pride of Madeira (Photo is practically 'as shot').

North Fitzroy:  These pictures are practically 'as shot'.

Bird of Paradise:

Kew:

all photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2012

On the other side of the world... spring in New York.

My friend Martin in New York sent me some lovely pictures of spring in his little corner of the world. I think the pictures were mostly taken on his i-phone. Seeing these pics of New York stirred up most pleasant memories of my time there last year. Martin emailed, "The whole city is just gorgeous and temperate right now.  Very different from last summer when you were here and it was 100 degrees!" Before I launch into the pictures he sent, here is a link to his website if you would like to know a bit more about the man behind the i-phone camera who aside from being a kind, generous and lovely person is also known as; a playwright, screenwriter, teacher and ex-actor!!! Whew!!!  To get to the website just click on his name: martin casella

and now the pics with descriptions by Martin:


"A street in Soho, Spring comes slowly here and then..viola!"

"New York University. Pink dogwood trees and tulips."

"Another View of the dogwoods"

 "Spring Wisteria on West 10th, Greenwich Village"

Lasty, a photo of a street in Martin's Local neighbourhood.

Glorious stuff! Many thanks Martin!


To view the previous blog with pics of Spring in Virginia click here.

On the other side of the world... spring

Right now on the other side of the world, it is spring. My friend Joe in Virginia, (in the United States) has taken a couple of pictures of 'spring' in his local area and kindly shared them with us. So while we enjoy autumn and think about the encroaching winter cold, lets take a moment to bask in spring, which is occurring right now, on the other side of the world!

In this first picture, Joe says you can see what a spectacular year it has been for the dogwoods (the white flowers).

This second picture is a close up of a dogwood flower

In this picture the Lady Banksia climbing rose is 'in all her glory' over the doorway. The green of spring presented here makes it hard to imagine the deep snow of winter which blanketed everything white, just a few months ago.

This final picture is of the Blue Ridge mountains off in the distance. The bare tress suggest that spring has only just began... This could just as much be a late autumnal or winter picture. It has such a beautiful haunting quality about it that draws me in and holds my attention.




Dear Joe, thank you so much for kindly sharing your spring.

As a side note:
When I received these pictures, I was so excited not only by them, but also by the mention of the Blue Ridge mountains! Fleet Foxes self titled debut Lp has a track called 'Blue Ridge mountains' on it. Here is the song with a fan made clip. I have no idea if any or all of the images are of the actual Blue Ridge mountains, but they do look beautiful and it is a beautiful tune. If you haven't heard the album, what are you waiting for?

In response to early spring

In response to my blog on early spring, a dear friend in Western Victoria posted me some pics of bloom in his garden. He was more than happy for me to share them on the blog.
enjoy!

Early Spring

Early Last week on my way to work I noticed I was feeling a bit 'Blah', so decided to get off the tram a few stops early and walk. Sometimes I find a good walk cheers me up. This walk through the back streets of Fitzroy wasn't doing much for me until I looked up and saw some beautiful blossom.WOW. My heart was filled with joy and I set off to work with a big smile. I decided to go back with my camera a few days later and take some pictures of the flowers I saw blooming, in order to share the joy.