“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Tulip Festival at Dows Lake Ottawa ON |
Today is the last day of Spring 2023 and it has been a beautiful season. Temperatures have been generally moderate with a little heat and just enough rain. We had some drifting smoke from wildfires in other provinces but had no fires locally.
I have enjoyed viewing many beautiful flowers in the past six weeks. The Tulip Festival in Ottawa was spectacular this year. The double-bloom tulip beds were at their peak Mother's Day weekend.
We re-visited a tulip farm where you could pick your own flowers or just take pictures on the props set up around the fields
It is a special treat to see a beautiful bird in a flowering tree and one cannot forget the native beauty of our woodland spring ephemerals.
Tomorrow is summer solstice and the beginning of a new season which has a beauty of its own.
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| Hyacinth and Narcissus at Green Corners Farm, Ottawa |
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| Male Baltimore Oriole in an flowering apple tree |
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| Female Orchard Oriole appropriately found in an apple orchard |
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| White Trillium (one of thousands in this particular bush) |
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| Jack-in-the-Pulpit, one of our latest blooming spring ephemerals |
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