Arctic starflower stretching for the summer sunlight waiting to unfold
Forest flower
Category: Flowers
Colors of spring
This winter felt like an eternity. It was cold, dark and too much snow. The winter was beautiful, yes, but every thing that lasts too long becomes kind of boring.
In Norway spring normally starts in April, but the snow kept coming and the winter seemed endless. Finally in May the temperature rised and the snow started to melt. And then everything happened in a higher speed than I am used to, nature exploded.
Just the other day I took a little hike in the little forest just outside my garden and the blueberry flowers were in full bloom. So spring arrived late this year, but now everything is just fine.
White water lily
Nymphaea alba
Water lilies is one of the most beautiful plants I know. This shot is also one of my best shots. It is from Lillomarka just outside Oslo when I went on a walk with a very good friend of mine. I used a 300 mm Nikon lense, lying flat in the swamp to avoid any unwanted movements.
I hope you also enjoy this beautiful and mysterious flower.
Late summer
Scandinavian summer is the short kind like a visitor in a hurry July is almost over late summer with signs of autumn's arrival Beautiful August bring warm colors to make up for cold and dark evenings
Summer flowers
Summer flowers from dark pink to pale green just like a rainbow Summer flowers from field to forest celebrating summer
Forget me not
Such a strange name for a little flower how can one forget this little beauty shining like little blue pearls sprinkled over the green fields of summer
Light as a feather
Light as a feather a dandelion pappus floats like a tiny parachute carried far away by the light summer breeze were will the journey end
Viola tricolor
When reading about this common wild flower on Wikipedia I found that this plant has lots of different names:
- wild pansy
- Jonny Jump up (also the name of yellow pansy)
- hearts ease
- hearts delight
- tickle-my-fancy
- Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me
- come-and-cuddle-me
- three faces in a hood
- love-in-idleness
- pink of my john
Why all these different names I don’t know, these names was listed in the English translation of Wikipedia. In Norway the common name for these flowers is “night-and-day” or “flower of the stepmother”. I think the Latin name, Viola tricolor, suits this beautiful flower best.
Sound of spring
Walking through the woods as many times before Something is different Winter cold and quiet has finally left Sound of spring Birds chattering all around such a happy feeling
Anemone hepatica (pink edition)
Spring is here and the first flowers are blooming here in Norway. Today I took a walk by the seaside along the Oslo fjord and found a lot of Anemone hepatica in the forest. The color of the flowers varies from white, all shades of blue to pink. The color variation is both due toe variation in the soil and genetics. Todays shot is of the pink variant of the flower.
Anne Floa 