More Spring Flowers, Birds, etc.
3/29/2022
Bird-of-Paradise Flower*
後院兩叢資深天堂鳥年齡超過三十歲
每年不論寒暑都有花
花朶就像雨林裡的天堂鳥般優雅美麗
秋冬院中幾乎無花之季剪來瓶中插 也頗養眼
*Strelitzia is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. It belongs to the plant family Strelitziaceae. The genus is named after Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom. A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower/plant, because of a resemblance of its flowers to birds-of-paradise. Wikipedia
Calendula 金盞花
Statice or Limonium*
紫色星辰花
*Limonium is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family. Wikipedia
小白花開在紫色的花萼上有如點點繁星
瓶插可做主、襯花，乾燥後亦能保持很長一段時間
Iceland Poppies
冰島罌粟
A blue bird catching a worm
feeding her young chicks?
春天的鳥兒有蟲吃
寶寶成長需要蛋白質
這鳥兒看來像是藍雀 (scrub jay?)
這是張水彩畫的藍鳥
Watercolor of a blue bird
這畫的是東岸一友人家附近的風景
湖水映出樹林倒影
一對天鵝悠遊自在地遊湖
Pair of swans swimming in lake with tree shadows
reflecting in water
Watercolor
Original photo courtesy: Lin-Yan Wei
Hummingbird stood sentinel guarding her nest ?
Perched at treetop to detect whatever happening down below
when people walked by she’d hover over them
這蜂鳥有螢光綠色羽衣
個頭小距離雖遠 一樣能清楚瞧見
牠喜歡棲息在同一株綠楓的高枝
視野更加寬廣
或許鳥巢就在左近 ？
Flock of waterfowl dancing in and above the lake
一群白色水鳥在湖中游水飛舞嬉戲
Some solitary birds were enjoying
their special time sunbathing
沙洲上一對野雁
左下角為落單的白鳥
春季為候鳥繁殖季節
不多久之後會有一大群小鴨鵝
刮噪聲響澈湖岸邊
A few birds including
a pair of Canadian geese
sunbathing on the lake shoal
Two squirrels stood motionless soaking in the sunshine
兩只松鼠一動不動，在湖邊曬太陽
Grace
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