No Entrecard widget any more!

Dear Readers,
you may have realized in the meanwhile, that I deleted my Entrecard accounts because I have no time any more to follow the ads and react appropriately.
I also decided to keep my blogs ad free. I am happy to use the old fashioned link exchange though for those blogs which are strictly theme related. In my opinion advertising has taken over on so many blogs that you sometimes do not recognize content any more. This is not what I want to do with my blogs.
The only widget that I am glad to continue to use is the one with followers because this one helps me to find new interesting blogs and I am happy to "pay back" with an entry myself.

Colours of a Cabbage...

I know these are no spring photos but I came across these pictures these days adn I thought they fit into the scheme of collecting colours - LOL. Amazing cabbage - isn't it?

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

More Crocus Blooms...

I love the various shades of the lilac crocus - cannot get enough of them...

"Crocus"

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Petasites Blooms

A strange little plant you will always find beginning of spring near to water... It is a healing plant that serves as a painkiller. Its tiny blooms are loveley...

"Petasites" (Asteraceae)
Pestwurz

All photos are from Freiburg - photography by Petra Voegtle

I am sick!

Sorry folks, I am quite sick and cannot work on the computer! Talk to you hopefully soon again...

White Crocus Blooms....

This is a rare sight - at least I have hardly seen any of these: the white crocus.

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Crocus Blooms again....

I just cannot get enough of these - the time is so short you can see these - they deteriorate so quickly and are gone for a long time again...

Blooms sooo Blue....

These Iris' are tiny - just about 5 inches only...

"Iris reticulata" (Iridaceae)
Zwergiris

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Blooms of Snowdrops and a Wanderer....

They run so fast - so I got him from his back only - never mind...

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Blooms of Snowdrops in the Sun...

There is something so sweet with these little white blooms - I simply love them...

All photos are from Freiburg - photography by Petra Voegtle

Blooms of Crocus on the Meadow....

"Crocus Tommasianus" (Iridaceae)
crocus, Elfenkrokus

Blossoms of the Witch Hazel - the Golden Queen

Although I have already seen blooming Hamamelis in January in my hometown Freiburg, I now discovered the most beautiful little bush of Hamamelis here in Munich now. The blossoms were huge and the backlit situation added a lot to its delicate beauty...
And it's also a very valuable healing plant - creme with hamamelis extract is used for all kinds of skin irritations and little wounds.

"Hamamelis"(Hamamelidaceae)

witch hazel, Zaubernuß

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Blooms like little Suns....

Isn't this promising?

"Anemone ranunculoides" (Ranuncolaceae)
buttercup anemone, Gelbe Anemone, Buschwindröschen

A Sea of Crocus' Blooms

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Snowdrops

Normally these appear much earlier - this year they are the true spring messengers...

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Garden Dreams...

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Snowdrops and Crocus

Now - did I promise too much? Also found on last Saturday....

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

One Day with a Spring Message....Blooms

I could not believe it but yesterday was a day where you could sense that spring is near although today it is one of those typical dull and dark days again but yesterday...
Doesn't this look like a promise? But there are more - much more - so check it out tomorrow!

"Crocus Flavus" (Iridaceae)

Golden Crocus, Goldkrokus

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Grasses in the Summer Wind....

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

The Feeling of Heat...

Isn't it interesting that we immediately associate a ripening corn field with heat and warm summer breezes? Even if we only see a picture, we instantly reckon to feel that warmth...

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle