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Leaves have not yet greened the big trees, but some small grasses are already in flower. They are not wasting any time.
grass in bloom

Meanwhile, I have been finding skeletons of last year's leaves. I found a perfect one and exclaimed over it, then got distracted by something else and didn't take it with me. Later I remembered and went to look for it and found a different, less perfect one.

It looks like a net. By itself it may catch a number of things; strengthened with a spell, more.
a leaf net

Date: 2009-04-20 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
We still netting you and [livejournal.com profile] darkpaisley for Sunday? (We might actually have the new-to-us van on the road by then.)
Edited Date: 2009-04-20 02:18 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-20 02:38 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-20 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redcoast.livejournal.com
I shall take a picture of the outside and show it to you.

Date: 2009-04-20 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Is it an explosion of color and flowers?

Date: 2009-04-20 03:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redcoast.livejournal.com
An explosion of wet right about now. I'll wait til the sun comes out.

Date: 2009-04-20 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redcoast.livejournal.com
Well, I shall have to wait until I've picked up Isaac, because it's time to leave now and I haven't logged into Flickr. Darn.

Date: 2009-04-20 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redcoast.livejournal.com
I can't write good commentary like you, but I bet you can come up with interesting things yourself.

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3460763224/)

Oak tree in our backyard.

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3459943553/)

Dogwood tree blossoming - they blossom around Easter. Also, they are RAMPANT around Atlanta, and if you go early enough in the year, you might catch a day when it's snowing and the Dogwoods are blooming.

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3460754570/in/photostream/)

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3459934369/in/photostream/)


That's looking back towards the Stones River. It's just beyond that far line of trees.

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3460747452/in/photostream/)


Two things here, the kids put grass all over the floor of the upper level of the fort. It looks like grass carpenting. The second thing is that wood is turning green all over the place. I guess it's moss, but it kind of looks like spring's trick of bringing everything to life is working too well, and it's getting even the wood.

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3460745834/in/photostream/)

Benjamin dug that hole and chose that expression to showcase it.

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3460741560/in/photostream/)

We call this the "regular tree." I don't know what it is.

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3459922141/in/photostream/)

Mom's birdfeeder is full of water because it rained. Those are planted flowers, not natural. I think those are azaleas or something.

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3459918615/in/photostream/)

These are pretty and there's whole beds of them. No idea what they are. They're like a vine or something.

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10115426@N08/3460733684/in/photostream/)

Yeah. Front yard. The big one is the non-flowering flowering pear tree, a "dogwood" (according to Clara, but I don't think so), and a little fur.

beautiful!

Date: 2009-04-20 09:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Gorgeous!!

The little purple flowers are myrtle or periwinkle--they are blooming here too! But not dogwoods yet. How pretty that dogwood flower is--and that's a great image, the snow with the dogwoods--that's a trope in Japanese poetry, so-called "elegant confusion" ("is that snow, or is it scattering blossoms that I see?")--how beautiful that would be in real life!

So you have a river in your backyard! Lucky! (But I am lucky too since we have a swamp behind our house.) And that's quite a hole Benjamin dug--I mean, it's about as tall as he is. He looks very cute in that first photo--reminds me of my one of my nephews, my sister's son.

And yes, those are azaleas. Do hummingbirds come to them?

But that dogwood flower--that's the one I love best.

Re: beautiful!

Date: 2009-04-20 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redcoast.livejournal.com
We have a hummingbird feeder next to the azeleas.

To get to the river, we'd have to climb over a privacy fence and then walk through someone else's yard, so we don't go that way. It's pretty close, yeah. That field is the flood plane for it.

Date: 2009-04-20 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inspirethoughts.livejournal.com
Very nice net. :)

Date: 2009-04-20 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Yes! So delicately woven.

Date: 2009-04-20 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillnotbored.livejournal.com
I adore the idea of the leaf being a net and catching things... Man, the ideas are pinging in my head now. Just pinging.

Date: 2009-04-20 04:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Can't wait to see the poem :-)

Date: 2009-04-20 04:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
Those leaf nets are amazing.

Date: 2009-04-20 05:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Aren't they! I think it's amazing when the whole leaf is preserved--but just the veining.

Date: 2009-04-20 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] faerie-writer.livejournal.com
I love leaf skeletons! They're so lacy! :D

Date: 2009-04-20 05:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Yes, they'd make great edging for a gown! Now you've made me want to draw that.... hmmm, maybe later today (but my drawings never come out as good as what's in my head).

Date: 2009-04-20 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] core-opsis.livejournal.com
Indeed--I was just thinking about this today--how everything small and on the ground is going gang-busters, but the big trees are waiting (wisely) to unfurl themselves.

Date: 2009-04-20 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
[livejournal.com profile] wakanomori was saying it's such a mysterious time of year, to him: warm, yet not green (well, it's green now on the ground, but not up in the trees). You never get that in England, he pointed out.
Edited Date: 2009-04-20 05:37 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-20 06:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skygoodwill.livejournal.com
Lovely. Leaf Lace.

Date: 2009-04-20 09:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Yes, I want a dress trimmed with it.

Date: 2009-04-20 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athenais.livejournal.com
Oh, beautiful leaf-spell-net. Pure magic.

Date: 2009-04-20 09:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
I'm going fishing tonight :-)

Date: 2009-04-21 01:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] b-oki.livejournal.com
a leaf-spell-net (i love that thought of yours and of athenais :) shall surely gather the fish easily and gently with the stars sprinkled in for extra measure...

thank you for this lovely post.

hugs, dear Asakiyume

Date: 2009-04-22 12:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
You are very welcome! I'll catch some of the blossoms from the tree that you've become, maybe :-) I love that poem of yours.

Date: 2009-04-22 01:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] b-oki.livejournal.com
thanks. you may have as many blossoms as you'd like :)

Date: 2009-04-20 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] littlemetaldrop.livejournal.com
That's an amazing leaf skeleton!

Date: 2009-04-20 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
You should have seen the one that got away!

Also, check out the bones (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakanomori/3459522721/) that [livejournal.com profile] wakanomori and I found. I brought them home. I'm going to paint in ink on the long one.

Date: 2009-04-21 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wicapis.livejournal.com
Yes. It does resemble a net. Just beautiful.

Date: 2009-04-22 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Tonight it caught me a song :-)

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