Branches, Tree, Roscoe

 

Mulberry, Roscoe

Tree, Roscoe

Tree, Roscoe

Sea oats and Japanese yews, Ponte Vedra Beach

On our dock, looking west

Out watering early this morning, no wind, no boats, so a nice mirror. Love the early light.

My garden, April 29th, 2016

 Daturas (Angel's trumpets)

 Hibiscus

My layered area. We have had a great Spring and my garden is flourishing.

Hickory bole and Heavenly bamboo, Roscoe

This is our hickory tree, down by the water in back. The plant with red berries is nankin, or heavenly bamboo. It is not a bamboo, nor is it heavenly anymore, as Florida has it listed as an invasive species. It has lovely leaves that change color in the winter. It is the only one we have and is quite slow growing. I'll probably pull it up in the spring as I don't want to help an invader.

Five trees, four trees, Solana Rd.

Palm trunk, Roscoe

We have had a run of Carl Weese days. Low contrast, gray light. This brings out the subtle colors as opposed to our usual bright sunlight.

P-bird, Jax Beach

I couldn't decide if this looked more like a penguin or a pelican, thus, P-bird.

MSD

Crepe myrtles and palms, MSD

Finial, MSD

This little pole topper keeps moving around to different lawns.

Bottle brush tree, Roscoe

I have a small bed planted to four Asian trees. A ginkgo, a Japanese maple, a Loquat and this tree, a bottle brush tree. It blooms heavily in the Spring and this is it's best year ever. Soon the ground will be covered with little bottle brushes.

Lee's tree

My wife's best friend lives in Winston-Salem NC. She is an avid gardener, and, like most avid gardeners, loves to share. She gave us this tree when it was a sapling and I planted it by the Intra Coastal Waterway 20 years ago. It is now about thirty feet tall and lovely. Every Spring it exfoliates it's bark in large cork-like sheets. To me it looks very Japanese and I have started a project to make photographs like Japanese paintings and woodcuts. I will have to ask Lee, for the 500th time the exact name of the tree and report it here. I think it is related to the Eucalyptus but my memory is poor on the subject. There will be more f these as I take them.

Spring is creeping in!

All of our early trees are exploding with Spring leaves. Woo-hoo

Signs of Spring/Signs of Autumn

 Here in North Florida we often get overlapping seasonal signs. The top picture is a big live oak near the Intracoastal Waterway on our land. It is flushed out with Spring growth.

The picture below is of the last leaves on a swamp maple or sweet gum, I'm not sure which. Both trees hold onto their red Autumn leaves until new growth starts. The overlap is nice because there isn't much Winter in between.

Indoor/outdoor PVIC

Patterns, Jax Beach