Monday 23 March 2009

Third day of spring

Villeneuve les AvignonToday is the third day of spring, apricot and peach trees are in bloom.
Cherry, apple and pear trees are a little late. They will really only start to blossom later this week.

Aujourd'hui, troisième jour du printemps, les abricotiers et les pêchers sont en fleurs.
Les cerisiers, les pommiers et les poiriers sont au bord de l'explosion mais ne fleuriront vraiment que d'ici quelques jours.

21 comments:

  1. merci pour ces quelques secondes de bonheur pour les yeux...et merci au printemps

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  2. Spring is certainly bursting out all over chez vous. I can feel the warmth of the sunshine from your photo.

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  3. Voilà, pourquoi on aime le printemps. C'rest très beau. Mon cerisier est encore à l'état de bourgeons. Je viens d'aller vérifier par la febêtre. J'aimerais bien qu'il ne fleurisse pas trop tôt, car l'année dernière une gelée tardive a fait que nous avons manger 2 cerises chacun.

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  4. Les cerisiers, les pommiers et les poiriers sont au bord de l'explosion ?
    Notes florales à venir !

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  5. Oui, le troisième jour aussi à Paris, même si le ciel n'est plus aussi bleue que la semaine passée!

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  6. Beautiful. We don't have anything even close to this here where I live.

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  7. Looks like you are having a beautiful start to Spring.

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  8. I'm sure the sky is bluer down there!

    Not many cherry trees in Paris, but the sound of the blackbird singing is my signal that spring has begun.

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  9. Quintessential spring Nathalie - that soft blossom and cool blue sky. And always so fleeting. I had a cherry tree outside the house until a couple of years ago when it was cut down. I always feel a bit sentimental at this time of year. Can I quote Housman?

    Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
    Is hung with bloom along the bough,
    And stands about the woodland ride
    Wearing white for Eastertide.

    Now, of my three score years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.

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  10. les fleurs sont dans tous les blogs depuis quelques jours. J'aime bien la 2ème dans son foisonnement

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  11. La légéreté, l'évasion par les yeux...

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  12. Magnificent and a sure sign of spring.

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  13. Lovely photos! Beautiful captures!

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  14. Je fais dans la fleur aussi mardi à 14 h !

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  15. Fabuleuses photos ! La joie du Printemps ! J'aime aussi bcp les photos réflexions. . . super travail !

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  16. I'm shivering today, Nathalie, but I feel a little warmer looking at your fruit blossoms. We are still several weeks away from such things.

    So nice to have you stop by and leave your good words. Thank you.

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  17. Absolutely gorgeous. I feel as if a ballerina is about to appear and do a pirouette.

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  18. Mmmmm...spring is on its way. I did a macro of autumnal blooms yesterday!

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  19. Beautiful, and thank you for your kind comment. I love viewing your photos of Avignon. Someday I would like to vist.

    God loves you if ever you decide to look for Him, He will be waiting with arms open..

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  20. chère Nathalie,
    magnifique photo. cela établit le printemps de mon imagination.

    Les flocons de neige fleurissent ici encore mais cela m'est égal, c'est tout beau! ha ha

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  21. How lovely! It's hard to resist taking pretty pictures in the spring.

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