Cool Winter Flowers Pictures images

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West Yellowstone to Madison Junction Route

Image by RayYNP
Scenic spots to view along this route are: West Yellowstone, Madison River, Mount Haynes and the National Park Mountain.

There is the gallery of 18 outstanding Flickr pictures that were taken on this West Yellowstone to Madison Junction route. The gallery pictures follow this map and show some of the scenic highlights that can be viewed while traveling between these two locations.

The 18 Interesting and unique Yellowstone National Park pictures that follow this route can be viewed by clicking on the gallery link below.

View a gallery of 18 pictures taken on the West Yellowstone to Madison Junction route.

Or you may wish to select from another of the 22 Yellowstone routes and destinations. Or, you may want to experience the four seasons of both the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Four maps are also available.

All of the galleries that contain 540 Interesting and unique Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park pictures can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

Tour all of Yellowstone or experience a Yellowstone or Grand Teton season. Review a map.

Enjoy.

You can view the original version of this map here.

Permission to use given here.

YNP- Norris Geyser Basin to Canyon Village Route

Image by SeattleRay
Scenic spots to view along this route are: Virginia Cascade, Ice Lake, Gibbon River, Wolf Lake and Grebe Lake.

There is the gallery of 18 outstanding Flickr pictures that were taken on this Norris Geyser Basin to Canyon Village route. The gallery pictures follow this map and show some of the scenic highlights that can be viewed while traveling between these two locations.

The 18 Interesting and unique Yellowstone National Park pictures that follow this route can be viewed by clicking on the gallery link below.

View a gallery of 18 pictures taken on the Norris Geyser Basin to Canyon Village route.

Or you may wish to select from another of the 22 Yellowstone routes and destinations. Or, you may want to experience the four seasons of both the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Four maps are also available.

All of the galleries that contain 540 Interesting and unique Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park pictures can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

Tour all of Yellowstone or experience a Yellowstone or Grand Teton season. Review a map.

Enjoy.

You can view the original version of this map here.

Permission to use given here.

YNP- Canyon Village to Tower and Roosevelt Route

Image by SeattleRay
Scenic spots to view along this route are: Dunraven Pass, Mount Washburn, Tower Creek, Antelope Creek and Prospect Peak.

There is the gallery of 18 outstanding Flickr pictures that were taken on this Canyon Village to Tower and Roosevelt route. The gallery pictures follow this map and show some of the scenic highlights that can be viewed while traveling between these two locations.

The 18 Interesting and unique Yellowstone National Park pictures that follow this route can be viewed by clicking on the gallery link below.

View a gallery of 18 pictures taken on the Canyon Village to Tower and Roosevelt route.

Or you may wish to select from another of the 22 Yellowstone routes and destinations. Or, you may want to experience the four seasons of both the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Four maps are also available.

All of the galleries that contain 540 Interesting and unique Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park pictures can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

Tour all of Yellowstone or experience a Yellowstone or Grand Teton season. Review a map.

Enjoy.

You can view the original version of this map here.

Permission to use given here.

lucy in the sky

Image by SIRHENRYB.is ****the dreamer****
www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2124595967&size=l
view large please
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
with tangerine trees and marmelade skies
somebody calls you you answer quite slowly
a girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head
look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
that grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore waiting to take you away
climb in the back with your head in the clouds and you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Picture yourself on a train in a station
with plasticine porters with looking glass ties
suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle
the girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Daily Shoot-Fuel for Creative Process

Image by NedraI
What fuels your creative process? Illustrate it in a photo today.

Using my macro lens and taking pictures of flowers fuels my creative process. I love finding beauty in things that others may pass by because they're past their prime.

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6 December

Image by Researching Media
Spilled coffee grounds, and clipped stems from some winter flowers.

Her Roses Ripple Like an Asp

Image by garlandcannon (on hiatus)
"The forest trees stand like a cloak,
a rosebush grows there in that brake.
She's wrapped around a massive oak
her flowers a sweet picture make
when stroked by wind, they tremble, quake.

Few have passed her glowing vines
without a quick-caught startled gasp,
such complicated intertwines-
her roses ripple like an asp
through thickset oaken leaves she grasps.

The winters come and bring their chill-
this fragile rose, snow can't revoke.
Instead, she blossoms fuller still,
the winds can't reach her petalled cloak...
she dances with a mighty oak."
-- Glass Slippers at allpoetry.com/poem/9241547-A_Hothouse_Rose_in_the_Wilds-b...

Created for Flaming Pear's It's All About 12 challenge at www.flickr.com/groups/flamingpear/discuss/72157628652673761/

Source, Star Spangled Rose Topaz Sketch, courtesy of cindy97007 at www.flickr.com/photos/cindy_mc/4606931337/ and in comments.

Texture Gold 8 by lenabem-anna www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/6525180733/

Native Garden-Winter (March 13, 2011)

Image by aloucha
Taken 3/13/2011 at the Native Flora garden. I love the twists and turns in this photo, and the bit of blue sky coming out in this otherwise monochromatic picture. In retrospect, I think the garden was open (unusual for the winter) because it was a very warm day.

Image by Jessica Kennedy
when i haven't taken pictures in a long time, i go to the arboretum.

bigger.

Grandma & I

Image by Travis Jon Allison
Mom & I went to visit my 91 year old Grandmother in her nursing home today. She's had Alzheimer's Disease for quite a while now - who knows when these things start.

She was having a particularly good day. I took her pictures to see on my computer - that always blows her mind a little...

Mom brought Grandma a narcissus plant in a box that we could work on for a little while with her. She always loved to garden.

Merry Christmas Grandma!

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Mammoth Hot Springs Destination

Image by RayYNP
Scenic spots to view at this destination location are: Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Post Office, Fort Yellowstone, Park Headquarters, Chapel, Lower Terraces and Upper Terraces.

There is the gallery of 18 outstanding Flickr pictures that were taken at the Mammoth Hot Springs destination. The gallery pictures follow this map route and show some of the scenic highlights that can be viewed at this destination location.

The 18 Interesting and unique Yellowstone National Park pictures at this destination can be viewed by clicking on the gallery link below.

View a gallery of 18 pictures taken at the Mammoth Hot Springs Destination.

Or you may wish to select from another of the 22 Yellowstone routes and destinations. Or, you may want to experience the four seasons of both the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Four maps are also available.

All of the galleries that contain 540 Interesting and unique Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park pictures can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

Tour all of Yellowstone or experience a Yellowstone or Grand Teton season. Review a map.

Enjoy.

You can view the original version of this map here.

Permission to use given here.

Lake Village to Canyon Village Route

Image by SeattleRay
Scenic spots to view along this route are: Bridge Bay, Fishing Bridge, Yellowstone River, Le Hardy Rapids, Mud Volcano, Sulphur Cauldron and Hayden Valley.

There is the gallery of 18 outstanding Flickr pictures that were taken on this Lake Village to Canyon Village route. The gallery pictures follow this map and show some of the scenic highlights that can be viewed while traveling between these two locations.

The 18 Interesting and unique Yellowstone National Park pictures that follow this route can be viewed by clicking on the gallery link below.

View a gallery of 18 pictures taken on the Lake Village to Canyon Village Route.

Or you may wish to select from another of the 22 Yellowstone routes and destinations. Or, you may want to experience the four seasons of both the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Four maps are also available.

All of the galleries that contain 540 Interesting and unique Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park pictures can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

Tour all of Yellowstone or experience a Yellowstone or Grand Teton season. Review a map.

Enjoy.

You can view the original version of this map here.

Permission to use given here.

Mammoth Hot Springs to Norris Geyser Basin Route

Image by SeattleRay
Scenic spots to view along this route are: Bunsen Peak, Golden Gate, Swan Lake, Gardner River, Gardners Hole, Sheepeater Cliff, Indian Creek, Obsidian Cliff, Grizzly Lake, Roaring Mountain, Twin Lakes and Nymph Lake.

There is the gallery of 18 outstanding Flickr pictures that were taken on this Mammoth Hot Springs to Norris Geyser Basin route. The gallery pictures follow this map and show some of the scenic highlights that can be viewed while traveling between these two locations.

The 18 Interesting and unique Yellowstone National Park pictures that follow this route can be viewed by clicking on the gallery link below.

View a gallery of 18 pictures taken on the Mammoth Hot Springs to Norris Geyser Basin route.

Or you may wish to select from another of the 22 Yellowstone routes and destinations. Or, you may want to experience the four seasons of both the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Four maps are also available.

All of the galleries that contain 540 Interesting and unique Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park pictures can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

Tour all of Yellowstone or experience a Yellowstone or Grand Teton season. Review a map.

Enjoy.

You can view the original version of this map here.

Permission to use given here.

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Bay laurel flower - Chabot Regional Park

Image by marymactavish
This is the tiny, lovely flower of Umbellularia californica
Known by a variety of names throughout its range. In California, it's "California bay laurel" or just "bay laurel."

Good articles are at:
www.paleotechnics.com/Articles/Bayarticle.html
dixiesd.marin.k12.ca.us/dixieschool/Pages/naturetrail/bay...
www.laspilitas.com/plants/682.htm

This is one of my favorite trees, growing in a huge variety of ways and habitats. It loves the California foothills. In shadier settings, like in Huckleberry Regional Preserve behind Oakland, it reaches for light between the other trees, and becomes tall and slender, leaves high above the forest floor. I saw one, there, that had fallen down the hill across the trail, its roots stuck in the hillside, its crown resting below. It was held off the trail by its branches and the shape of the hill high enough for people to walk beneath, and the only branches that seemed to be actively growing were growing straight up, like individual trees sprouting from the arch of the fallen trunk, reaching for the sky on their own. In sunnier spots, it grows big and bushy. The trunk gets thick and lichenous. It's a strong, versatile, supple tree. The leaves can be used in cooking, but are much stronger than classic bay, it's a good idea to experiment, but to use much less than one would use of bay leaves from the store. On very hot days, I can be uncomfortable hiking around these trees (as around eucalyptus or pine) as the scent can be strong enough to give me a headache.

I'm not sure what the musty black stuff is on the leaves. Some leaves have a lot, some a little, some none. I think it's a fungus that bays get.

This, and some of my other bay laurel photos, have been featured on Botany Photo of the Day. If you have plant photos that would be appropriate there, please go check the pool and submit your photos.

old Agave-flower

Image by ♥ Annieta 
La Marina, Spain, 25 december 2006

frosted plant

Image by oscarknapp
While taking pictures of winter landscapes, I discovered that the plants next to me where covered with ice. I can only guess what these plants may have looked like in summer. The ice cover was nearly to much to bear for the plant.

Winter Gardens 02

Image by @notnixon

frosted pink flowers

Image by will668
pictures from a cold and frosty morning at Eltham Palace

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Winter for Wildflowers ~ oscote365 73

Image by don j schulte @ oxherder arts
Deep into the brown of Winter wildflowers.

HDR was not needed for this image but I thought HDR communicated the grittiness, dryness and browns of Winter here a bit better than a single image.

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This oscote365 set is my picture a day (PAD) for a year where the only stipulation is that I am standing on our land. The goal is deepen my appreciation for and connection to this little piece of land we live upon through seeing it better via photography.

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Winter-Shriveled Turk's Cap ~ oscote365 83

Image by don j schulte @ oxherder arts
Turk's Cap (Malvaviscus drummondii) in Winter.

Notes: There was bright background and the flowers being dark red required I bracket this image to get everything exposed "normal". But when processing bokeh laden images such as these with HDR techniques you can get some good or bad results. The bokeh came out not so good in this HDR result. IMHO, bokeh should be creamy without distinct lines. But then the lens used here is not known for great bokeh either (Nikon 55mm f/2.8 Micro).

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This oscote365 set is my picture a day (PAD) for a year where the only stipulation is that I am standing on our land. The goal is deepen my appreciation for and connection to this little piece of land we live upon through seeing it better via photography.

Blog the oxherding path ~~ on Twitter ~~ Oxherder Arts Gallery

saupoudrée de sucre en poudre (sprinkled with powdered sugar)

Image by Zixii
polyanthus, my garden nikkor 60mm at f/14 1/60 second.

Thanks to gherm for the title. He described one of my pictures as 'saupoudrée de sucre glace' - sprinkled with icing sugar... I like the word 'saupoudrée' !

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Image by Allie_Caulfield

Red Flowering Currant in Winter

Image by born1945
This little bush has beautiful blossoms in the spring; and it seems to keep its flowers well into the summer. Here is a link to a picture of the flowers from this plant.

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Modern Japanese Flower Arrangement 7, Ikebana: 現代いけばな

Image by Conveyor belt sushi

South Entrance to West Thumb/Grant Village Route

Image by RayYNP
Scenic spots to view along this route are: South Entrance, Cave Falls, Moose Falls, Lewis River, Lewis Falls, Lewis Lake, Red Mountains, Mount Sheridan, Shoshone Lake and Riddle Lake.

There is the gallery of 18 outstanding Flickr pictures that were taken on this South Entrance to West Thumb/Grant Village route. The gallery pictures follow this map and show some of the scenic highlights that can be viewed while traveling between these two locations.

The 18 Interesting and unique Yellowstone National Park pictures that follow this route can be viewed by clicking on the gallery link below.

View a gallery of 18 pictures taken on the South Entrance to West Thumb/Grant Village route.

Or you may wish to select from another of the 22 Yellowstone routes and destinations. Or, you may want to experience the four seasons of both the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Four maps are also available.

All of the galleries that contain 540 Interesting and unique Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park pictures can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

Tour all of Yellowstone or experience a Yellowstone or Grand Teton season. Review a map.

Enjoy.

You can view the original version of this map here.

Permission to use given here.

acacianewgrowth

Image by quadrapop
a desktop picture of WA new winter growth - this acacia flowers in late winter & early spring

Fragile

Image by Falashad
Loved the color against the snow, be happy I only put up a couple of the many pictures of this I took.

66/365 Iced Over

Image by rhetoricjunkie
Today was warmer than I expected. For January, it was downright gorgeous but the lake is still iced over. We went to see if there were any ducks or geese hanging out like at the ponds yesterday. We took a few pictures and walked around for a bit.

I wanted the berries and branches to contrast with the ice on the lake here. I know it's winter when I take pictures of berries and bare branches where I used to shoot leaves and flowers.

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Winter Stunners

Image by aussiegall
Now flowering in my garden, Polyanthus. These are my favourite winter flowers, they are so bright and totally in your face. I picked up a few different varieties so I will definately be taking more pictures

Winter flowers

Image by gullevek
See where this picture was taken. [?]

flowers in glass

Image by mbzclkgtr_18

Chirstmas Cactus

Image by Jeff Heard
From my Mom's windowsill

Wild Carrot

Image by mjohnso

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