Winter Spring Summer

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All in 30 days. 3 seasons duked it out. Sub zero temperatures to ninety degrees (f). Now it’s spring again today it was frosty in places as the sun came out to warm the new plants. Click on winter pictures to enlarge and forward. captions should show up as well. Our spring winter storm came with high winds and colored us a deep white.

Spring again for a couple days yielded to extreme heat for northern Minnesota. mosquitoes and wood tics loved the heat. I about died. Thankfully after a few days spring came back from the arctic I assume. Buds, leaves and flowers said “YES” in unison. My camera finally quit shivering and said “lets do it”. Below is a gallery of spring around our place. I spent a couple days in rain and sun taking a few shots whenever the winds would die down...enjoy

Every variety of plant seems to have it’s own shade of green. The creative variety is absolutely astounding. I am peering at specific pieces of nature, framing with my camera and focusing on one of a million objects to pick. I must admit honestly that I am on sacred ground.

Gary

Did you see my only indoor shot of the petunia and the window reflection? How about the moon rolling down the spruce limb? Did you ever wonder why a woodpecker spends time pecking in the lawn? Can you find the 5 kinds of very small spring flowers that grow in the lawn grass? Oh, and I think that tom turkey needs help finding the flock of hens…maybe they ditched him.

Published by Gary Fultz

Outdoors Man, Hunter, Fisherman, Guide, Writer / Author, Photographer, Public Speaker, Musician, Song Writer, Story Teller, Follower Of Jesus. Love God and family and total strangers

76 thoughts on “Winter Spring Summer”

  1. Sacred ground indeed Gary . . . a prelude of what’s to come after our final season here.

    Thanks for sharing these brother.

    Keep Looking Up ^ …His Best is Yet to Come!

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  3. Thanks Gary. Great work showcasing the Lord’s Creation up there. I like the idea of three distinct seasons in thirty days. Well, two out of three anyway. You’ve taken some really good chosen shots here of all the variety and seasonal attractions. Sacred ground indeed. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Thanks for the encouragement RJ. The highs and lows have been crazy this spring. The trees sure find a way to grow and thrive. The little flowers came up almost through ice and snow. The will behind it all is a wonderful creator who pushes all things forward. A lesson for us I think

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  5. Great photos Gary! I agree with you that there plants have so many shades of green it is just an amazing blessing.

    I hope that spring-like conditions continues.

    I saw the beautiful petunia and the window reflection. I am not good with identifying flowers, but I think the yellow flowers in the lawn grass are Wood sorrel (?)
    Have a blessed weekend. Peace to you.

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    1. Thanks Suzette. Yes…so blessed…the many shades and textures of green…and I take my eyes for granted way too much…I am going to look up “wood Sorrel” I even have an app for id plants on my phone that might help…I really don’t trust apps so not sure why I do that.

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  6. A great post, Gary. I love your frosty spring photos. It is interesting that when it is time the green come out even while it is still cold and frosty. You have a lovely woods to trek trough!

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    1. Thanks Dwight. I agree on the lovely woods. I sit on a very interesting patch of woods and lowland with a couple of lakes nearby. A couple thousand acres of public land is accessible with very little trails other than animal trails. It’s Very “wild” country. We have plenty of bear, wolves and some deer. Bobcat, coyote, fisher and pine martin abound with a growing number of cougar. It is very wise to practice animal safety. It’s a photographers dream area if one can figure out how to keep equipment working well. Cell signal is very poor so good wi-fi is helpful.

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  7. You make top-notch photography and engaging writing seem easy. Gary. But anyone who is serious about doing either knows they are not.
    Of course the turkey hens ditched the tom. That could be a story in itself.

    I hope the “ping-pong” spring (as you’ve described it) is almost over.

    Blessings.

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    1. Thanks David. We did have below freezing last night after I transplanted some garden stuff…so replanting. I’m headed out on a wilderness trip soon. I hope the weather is stable as well. the forecast (for what it’s worth) is lows in 50s and highs in 70s…sounds too good to be true.

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  8. Thanks from me too, Gary, for reminding me of the sacred ground that we walk on… Spring has well and truly sprung here on the East Coast of England. It’s sacred ground whatever the season, whether we recognise it or not, remember it or not. Go well, Gary

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    1. Thanks Malcolm. You have reminded me that way more is sacred then what we identify as sacred…one could carry over that thot into the “one anothers”. I cannot help but wonder all that God considers sacred where we might scoff or be Moses curious.

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      1. It’s strange, Gary. Our sermon in church this morning was Exodus 3 Moses and the burning bush… I thought of you. ‘Take off your shoes. You’re standing on holy ground. Perhaps God is trying to tell me something. Thank you for your contribution.

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    1. Thankfully Erroll, I have been blessed with a huge coping mechanism for bugs and mosquitoes. I do need a headnet when they are so thick one cannot breath with out getting them into the lungs. Thankfully that is rare. I know you understand God’s creation feels like Holy ground. My sister identified that one little tiny flower for me…it’s a Hairy Woodrush. I had never heard of this rarely seen little perennial that is everywhere but hides unseen in the grass of people’s lawns. Oh to look and really see. There’s a half hidden lesson there.

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  10. Thank you for taking the time to share this Spring/Winter bunch of photos. How amazing it is at the variety God pours out up there. This non-techy guy down here in Florida finally figured out why I couldn’t ever click on your photos to enlarge. It only works when I leave WordPress, and head over to your site.

    I think Tom is watching the camera while trying to decide if it is dangerous or not. That female woodpecker may be scrounging about looking for nesting material. Maybe she is thinking, “It’s Spring! Time for some Spring housekeeping!”

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    1. Thanks Pete…you are probably close to the truth on those birds. Now and then I do get complaints about pictures not enlarging or turning into a Manuel slide show. I know a lot about the nonteck side of things. Sigh.

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    1. we are swinging wildly this year. It’s not unusual though. I remember waking up to 19 degrees and 4 inches of snow on my face. My tent collapsed under the sheet of rain turned ice then snow on my tent on May 31…2 days later it was 70 degrees. A BWCA trip I will not forget. 2 days of wind, rain, colder and colder and so on. 12 portages in when it snowed….I’m going again in 10 days…wanna come with?

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    2. I sure understand that stage…keep your family together and on the same track…it will be worth the leadership effort big time when your kids have families and you are included in their plans.

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    1. oh yes…it seems I remember a spring vacation to Colorado and got snowed on at 7000 feet.. Then, a few days later I photographed some wild flowers above the tree line on the mountainside in 70 degree weather.

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  15. Beautiful photos, Gary! And thanks for the notes to call my attention to details I hadn’t noticed. A reminder to slow down and see the beauty! Our Spring has been chilly – especially to us after having spent so much time in Florida. I don’t like the heat, so let’s not get into Summer too fast.

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    1. Thanks Betty. About half those pictures were taken with a little Canon SX740 …like yours. I also struggle with heat…a 50 -60 degree flannal shirt summer would be wonderful. I do live through you and Dan in Florida in the cold winter months though.

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    1. Thanks Wynn. An 80 degree swing in temperatures in a couple days was crazy, even though it’s not rare. What was rare was all the bugs that woke up before the frost was out of the ground. That bothered my OCD side. Somehow there have been good photo lighting and non-windy moments between snow and rain storms and high winds coming and going. A fun adventurous spring…

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    1. Thanks Cindy. I am in awe of your photography. I think the adventure side of us, love for nature and some creativity helps with getting in position for good shots. Your technical skills are so good when you get those shots.

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    1. Thanks Jon

      It’s humbling to recognize outcomes (like taking pictures, music, other gifts and talents) that go beyond what we can do in and of ourselves. If it’s good it’s God who orchestrates those things in our lives. We are like a little child sitting on daddy’s lap thinking we are driving by holding the steering wheel.

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      1. It is certainly better to be sitting on Daddy’s lap. My dad told a story about getting out to open a gate on the ranch with me in the car when I was just a toddler. I put the car in gear and drove it through the gate. I couldn’t reach the wheel and the gas at the same time, but he said that when he would almost catch up to me, I would get down in the floorboard and push on the gas. Isn’t that the way life goes when we are trying to do things on our own, basically out of control? I am so grateful that God hold us, at whatever age we get to!

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    1. Thanks Linda. I must admit the crazy spring weather sure dressed up the subjects for making photos look good. The snow, rain and especially diffused light. Those tulips are still out there looking great.

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    1. Thanks Rayla. Those of us who have known this ground can feel it deeper than our bones…a part of us. This God we know has seeped into all of our being. So much normal is sacred

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  23. Thanks Linda. I must admit the crazy spring weather sure dressed up the subjects for making photos look good. The snow, rain and especially diffused light. Those tulips are still out there looking great.

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    1. Yes, strange in a lot of places but not setting any records as spring always seems to have some strange twist each year. However…no matter what, we still get mosquitoes, lots of them, every spring.

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  27. Hi, Gary. WP is sometimes strange! I have hit the Like star on almost ALL of your blogs since finding you, but when I went into a couple of the older blogs from your Front Page, even though the star was blue, I was not on the list of people who had hit the Like button on the blog! Your blogs ARE deeply appreciated by this Kentuckian and I am greatly jealous of your snow and your photographic finesse!🤠

    ❤️&🙏, c.a.     

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    1. thanks C. A. I honestly don’t keep track of likes. The comments keep me going as it seems to be an honest connection with total strangers becoming possible friends. Word Press seems to flip a coin on what works and what doesn’t each day. I am packing for a 6 day wilderness trip by canoe…hope to get some nice pictures. You would enjoy this country (except maybe the mosquitoes). One of my Kentucky grandsons will be with me. He is sure enjoying our “cool” weather. I will enjoy his strength carrying heavy packs on the portages.

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    1. yes, very wild Stacy. I am never ready for heat past 80 degrees from the start. It’s not uncommon though. I remember many times the extreme changes in Northern Minnesota. I was just in the wilderness for a week. Lows in high 30s and highs near 80…depending on the day. Today barely made 50.

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