The Promise of Early Spring

Taken last week just after the snowstorm(s). The trees know something and after the days of gray skies and inversion, I want to believe they know that spring is coming. Eventually.

Taken with the 70-200 f4.

  • http://confusedtwenty.wordpress.com CC

    Not to make you jealous or anything, but its 15 degrees Celcius here and the tulips have started to bloom :)

    Quite a change for the UK really. Last February we didn’t see a day without gales, and April was the hottest month of the year! Funny thing, global warming…

  • http://ohophelia.diaryland.com alina

    Ah, the inversion. I don’t miss that lovely part of Utah weather one tiny bit.

  • http://www.jillshalvis.com/blog Jill S.

    We just got another 18 inches of snow . . .

  • http://www.montanajen.typepad.com MontanaJen

    We just got dumped on again, with more in the forecast.

    I love it, though. Love, love love.

  • http://monkeyseemedia.blogspot.com Deanna

    Winters like this one have prompted me to move from Maine to Hawaii. I leave next week, thank God.

    Someday, with your oodles of free time (note sarcasm), I think I speak for most of your readers when I say I’d love to know what’s in your photography arsenal and why, and what you think of the lenses. Inquiring minds want to point to your blog and say “Husband, Blurbomat says this lens is a good one and, uh, we should get it.”

  • http://youmakemelaugh.livejournal.com/ Penelope

    The trees are reacting to the longer daylight hours….or at least the longer periods of lighter gray sky vs. complete dark.

  • http://tiggerlane.blogspot.com Tiggerlane

    Pretty photo – believe it or not, the trees here in Arkansas must know something we don’t. Not a bud in sight, and the daffodils are still hiding. Odd.

  • Summer

    Lovely photo. Any particular reason you went with the f4.0 instead of the 2.8?

  • http://blurbomat.com blurb

    @Summer, size and money. The more expensive 2.8 is substantially beefier and heavier. Since this is a new focal length for us, I thought it might be good to not spend a lot and see how it goes. It is a great lens so far.

  • Ash

    You have no idea how HAPPY I am to see buds on a tree in Utah! Maybe my side of the neighborhood is still too dark to coax the buds out of the trees in my yard…