Photo Hunt - Purple

This weeks Photohunt Theme is Purple

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Purple Flowers in Down town Victoria.

Happy Hunting! I'm out hopefully enjoying warmer weather on a bike ride.

A Look At Spring in Victoria

I was finally able to upload a few photos from my Nikon camera.  Here's a look at the spring blossoms in Victoria, BC from a sunny Monday.

A local Hotel that looks so European to me.

A Walk Down Town

Theater near China Town

Biking Time?

Near Our Place, Spring Flowers.

Ah the Flowers!

Wide Angle Image from Down Town

The famous China Town Entrance...

** Please don't be fooled by the photos.  It has only been warmer (15C) for about 3 days so far.  The rest of the time it's been drizzly or rainy and 10C.

Ah Spring

A few images from the last couple of weeks.

North Vancouver - Deep Cove Cherry blossoms

Sunset in West Vancouver - Ambleside

Walking the streets of Zurich

And thinking too much about what I miss most.
Switzerland

A Vandusen Tour

On Saturday P and I planned an outting to Vandusen Botanical gardens to enjoy the sunny weather, photograph the new spring flowers and do a bit of bird watching. Really it is so amazing what you see when you really stop to notice the little things.

Here's a short photo tour of some of the Vandusen Gardens.

I was surprised to see not too many flowers blooming yet. I'm willing to guess we are a bit behind on the blooming schedule since we had so much rain all winter and well into most of March.

My favorite flower from the visit.

Large pencils? or...


And finally parting shots. ;-)

P was very happy to se some new ducks which we didn't see too often around here. These are two that were doing some very funny spinny with their feet and then would duck down and moon us. It was very entertaining!

Spring is in the Air

Spring is in the Air
Originally uploaded by thnkfst.

During our Eagle find we saw beautiful blue skies and hints that spring will be coming. I think the signs are coming out as flowers are starting to pop up from the earth. It's a beautiful sight and such a fun time to photograph!

I'm curious to know if spring is starting where you live. We currently have our sunrise at 7:10am which means I'm getting up earlier and earlier on my late mornings.

I'm also curious to know if anyone has seen the fasnacht celebrations. I think the celebrations began in Basel.

And hopefully I'll be posting a few more new photos soon!