May started off with a snowstorm —
But before that, spring had managed
To explode in glowing cups of beauty.
Wild tulips sprouted
Paper thin wings of petals
That matched the lovely
Wings of bees enjoying the flowers.
And on a still day, if you stand quietly beneath this tree,
You can hear it humming
With the happy buzzing of bees among blooms.
For more bee-autiful posts, please visit: Our World Tuesday.
Lady Fi 
So beautiful photos!
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Isn’t this time of year just glorious, Fiona. What a lovely connection you made between the bee and the tulip……..waiting for our tulips here to show their colours.
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Beautiful Fi, it is remarkable, love it.
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These are lovely – a beautiful portrait of spring.
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anyone who doesn’t believe in the climate changes we’re experiencing is not a fluke is a fool .. .global warming is real …
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So beautiful! Love the wonderful spring colours.
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Gorgeous photos, stunning colors and a firework of spring.
Best regards, Synnöve
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Lovely pictures and also lovely to hear of bees humming. They are so vital to the ecological process and (in my part of the world) I have heard that they are in decline. So hail to the bees everywhere! 🙂
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Stunning spring blossoms.
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Fantastic captures, Fiona, as always! Gorgeous flowers, exquisite colors and a heavenly way to begin my day and new week!! Thanks as always for sharing the beauty! Have a great week!!
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You’ve definitely captured the beauty of Spring.
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just marvelous!
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Oh, so beautiful! And love those pollinators!!
Still waiting patiently for anything at all to burst into life here.. it won’t be long now!
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Ah, spring, in al it’s glory! Beautiful blooms!
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Spring has sprung at Lady Fi’s!
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Dear LadyFi, there are no fruit trees in my yard so not much buzzing going on here. But up in Minnesota where I lived in a two-story 1870 lumberjack home for 32 years, I had two crabapple trees in the backyard. Each spring they looked like a cloud had settled on a dark trunk. A cloud so beautiful that both the bees and I were giddy with delight. Peace.
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Thank you for sharing this gorgeous memory!
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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Exquisite! No words needed, none adquate.
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The way u connected spring and bee is beautiful! Perfect spring photographs… awesome blossoms
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Isn’t it wonderful to see nature exploding into color? Well maybe not the white stuff, but every thing else is most welcome.
Jen
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Glorious blooms! Oh my goodness me.
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Gorgeous!
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Some very beautiful spring colors!!
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The colors are so vivid and fresh. Beautiful spring shots.
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Helt underbara bilder!
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Very nicely done. You caught those flowers beautifully. Sharp and crisp enough to eat. Appropriately
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Your tulips are GORGEOUS… We had some pretty ones this year –but I haven’t put together my blog post to show them off… They are almost all gone now—but the Irises are beginning to bloom…. Oh –how I love spring.
Hugs,
Betsy
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Gorgeous photos Fi, so beautiful!
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Ooh and ahh. The very best kind of magic. Thank you.
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Simply. Beautiful. Fi
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Beautiful!
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What a beautiful spring you are having!
So much wonderful color.
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I especially love the beautiful colors and details of the textures!
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So Beautiful.
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Hi Very beautiful flower Photos. Yes,I can hear the humming.
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Beautiful spring flowers Your images are lovely.. Have a happy week!
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Your close ups are so crystal clear!!!!…:)JP
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ah i love all the colors of the fresh flowers in spring…esp the tulips…..
lovely pics…
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Simply beautiful.
Spring is so incredible , you captured the magic of it 🙂
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Spring is my favorite season and you embodied it so perfectly in these photos! Wow!
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‘humming-tree.jpg’, the title alone vividly appropriate. There is a swirl of activity from the shape of the branch creating a circular motion and the blending fuzziness of the depth field that just makes this image come even more alive -its all but a bee’s world and not just about the bee which is what most would zoom in on. This is a tremendous photograph. A blend of serendipity, hardware driven and of course the ability of your eyes to see the potential.
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Awww — thank you so much for this kind comment.
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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Such fantastic photos of tulips filled with light, and I can imagine the hum in the trees –
Spring is the best!
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These are STUNNING! I love tulips — at the top of my favorite flowers list!
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clicking over here is like a slice of heaven. Xx
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Sorry about the snow.
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All your photos are WOW!
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Your blossoms glow like lamps!
ALOHA from Honolulu
ComfortSpiral
=^..^= ❤
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I went to the tulip festival here in Oregon not long ago and so enjoyed the variety of colors (can see on my blog– http://poetrose24.blogspot.com/2014/04/more-tulip-fever.html and http://poetrose24.blogspot.com/2014/04/oregon-tulip-festival.html
I was so thrilled when there. I have also enjoyed the dahlia festival and iris festival! Wondrous.
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Whoa! Stunning colors in the tulips.
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Vakre bilder … ser våren har eksplodert hos deg også! Ha en fin uke!
Irene
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Wow, BEE-autiful spring flowers♡♡♡ I saw bees and heard them buzzing this moening(*^_^*)
Thank you very much for hosting. Sending you Lots of Love and Hugs from Japan, xoxo Miyako*
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Totally exquisite!
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Beautiful shots here too. 🙂 Oh the color of spring.
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Beautiful photography. Wish I could stand under that tree and hear all the bees!
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Stunners all!
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die Zeit die wir ALLE lieben
LG vom katerchen
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beautiful and the back lighting enhances the details a lot 🙂
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au bokeh,il y a de si belles couleurs aussi
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Wonderful photos with stunning colors!
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You bring spring in our lives!
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Gorgeous tulips! I would love to have them in my garden…or at least on my table:) Great shots!
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Grape hyacinths, too! And aren’t you lucky to have so many bees!
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They are amazing color. The first one is my favorite.
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And a lightly and delicate “picture painted” of Spring plus a game of words…so “bee-autiful”, indeed!!
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Glowing cups of beauty is right.
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Simplly amazing!
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Pretty flowers!
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Magnificent! ~ xoxo
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“Bee-autiful winged spring” – what a clever title including the word coined by you. Fantastic shots as always!
Yoko
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Hey Lucky you! We are just going into Winter….
Thanks for cheering an Aussie up with your lovely photos!
Wren x
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I love the light coming through the tulip petals!!!
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Very pretty flowers.
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Flirts in petal skirts! I’d fall for them.
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Thank you for sharing your lovely flowers and for your work to make Our World Tuesday a thriving meme.
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I especially love that last shot with the tree flowers spiralling against the beautiful blue sky. I do like a short depth of field to add mystery and a sense of movement….it’s almost as though we can see the flowers popping open 🙂
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These spring photos are like nectar to me! Love that pink tulip.
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Wings take many forms. Thank you for expanding the definition in your beautiful post!
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I remember spring in Sweden, my best memories of vitsippor, liljekonvaljer, hagg, osv. Your dog divers are too much, loved that capture. And I have something on my blog you may enjoy — a video called Wild Sweden.
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What beautiful flowers. We’ve had crazy weather too, alternating between hot and snow (with more snow on the way).
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Delicious photos! Such gorgeous flowers!
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Super gorgeous captures!
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Spring is as dramatic as winter there!! So beautiful!
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I was listening for buzzing as your images of flowers, LadyFi, make me think I am standing in a field.
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So good to see all the colours of spring back again 🙂
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Gorgeous colours and shapes! Brilliant photos.
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what can I say. spring is a wonder. 🙂
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Beautiful flowers you captured! I love spring:)
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beautiful!!! (though a snowstorm doesn’t sound nice…)
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A brilliant beauty!
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A snow storm?? Eek. I barely manage with the shift from a 9-month African summer to a 5-month English winter but snowstorms in May would make me very grumpy indeed. Gorgeous photos.
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So gorgeous Fiona.. always look forward to the first blooms of spring..
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OMG! You actually captured the wings of bees. “Exquisite” doesn’t begin to describe these photos, my uber-talented friend.
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Those pictures are marvelous!
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Simply beautiful
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Brilliant! Beautiful.
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