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Tag: Winter

  • Fruit Trees Are Blooming

    Though it is February, fruit trees are blooming in Berkeley. As are many magnolias. White, pink and purple, I have not seen yellow magnolias yet. Nisperos I saw in flower already before February, and some Vaccinium-type bushes are towards the end of their flowering. Citruses, too, are blooming, though they tend to do it year around.

    I expected my Winter Flowers in Berkeley-photos to be scarce but the weather has been clement. It has been a T-shirt weather Saturday and Sunday, monarch butterflies are fluttering again, and hummingbirds are in full swing. As is the spring chorus in general. I think the spring is early this year.

    Blooming fruit tree, February 7th, 2026, Berkeley, CA

  • Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve, Berkeley, CA. The rainy season (winter) has started and new, hopeful green shoots are peeking.

    Mosses are green, too.

    Magnolias are blooming, different species than the big white ones in the summer. Those are now producing seeds. There seems to be always flowers in Berkeley, CA.

    Berkeley palms against December sky. Later, it began to rain.

    Then some Christmas ornaments. Or seed pods of a gumball tree (assuming I identified the species correctly.)

    Finally, some late ginkgo leaves, most of the ginkgo leaves around here are already down, but there are some trees that even have some green left.

    Merry Christmas to all!

  • Still alive

    December 13th, Berkeley, CA

    Hello, again! I have not abandoned my blog, just neglected it.

    Here is a photo I took last week’s Saturday, while walking in Berkeley. Juxtaposition of red and yellow leaves and palms in sunlight at the beginning of winter (for me, the winter months are December, January and February)

    Today was the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. It was raining. I am still trying to decide which photos to use where, but I think these leaves on the ground have seasonal color.

    December 21st, Berkeley, CA

    Merry Christmas!

    Maybe I should make colorized versions of these photos and post them as jigsaw puzzles?

  • Jigsaw Puzzles – 3

    Finland in February

    Birch trees can have surprisingly colorful bark.

    Otherwise the color scale tends to be a bit narrow, unless sun shines and gives hue to the frost, landscape and sky.