From Autumn to Winter - TREES

So, finally Winter is here WITH snow.
It's just not the same without it.
I need snow to have the true feeling of Winter.
We did have a snow in November. That was a bit early and it didn't stay.
December and January were rather dull and with no snow.

Now, in the height of the season the snow has returned.
Also with some frost; cold enough for the snow to stay and a bit of sun to come out for the photos of the trees.

Now, I can finally make this last of the season set for the trees:

at the home train station 

at the home train station

the walnut tree 

the walnut tree

at work train station

at work train station

group of Beech trees

group of Beech trees

the Linden tree

the Linden tree

I hope you enjoyed this set.
To review the last ones I add the links to the other sets:
Summer to Autumn
Spring to Summer
Winter to Spring

Christmas is Coming

Christmas is coming

Christmas is coming,

Everyone is running

From one place to the other

And no one seems to bother.

Before at mother’s times

They could hear the angels’ chimes.

Where is it all gone?

The memory is still strong.

The snow would slowly fall;

All people big and small

Are outside having fun.

Where has it all gone?

Baking cookies with mother

Packing parcels with father

Singing carols on the street;

Those times were so sweet.

Christmas is coming

Everyone is running

All are busy with their buying;

Makes me feel like crying.

I want the old times back;

With no thought of lack,

With joy in abundance

As it had been once.

So if from the cycle I break free

All the little wonders I can see;

Children’s eyes still shine so strong

As they hear the angels’ song.

Not everything has gone.

It is easy to be done:

Just stop your running

And you know 

Christmas is coming.

From Summer to Autumn . TREES

A year can get rather long if you wait for the seasons to change to take the proper photo of single trees.

Although Autumn - with colored and falling leaves - seemed to start a bit earlier this year (in August; which was only due to the dryness all Spring and Summer long), 

the trees I have been photographing and thus watching took their time to show off the yellows and reds and half bare branches. 

Finally they did; not all at the same time though. 

It took about three weeks until I was satisfied with the change. Enough change to show the difference of Summer and Autumn on those trees.

So let's start with the Walnut and Cherry trees at the train station again:

in Summer

in Summer

The cherry trees were the first
to start changing color.

And shortly later they still have the leaves,
but the Walnut tree is nearly barren.

The Walnut tree alone.

And again a bit alter.

Next set of images is the Linden tree:

in Summer

in Autumn - still not lost many leaves

The Bloodplum at my house:

in July

in October - not much change ,
but lots of leaves already down

The small tree at the other train station:

in Summer

in Autumn, scrub in front is brown

The big Chestnut tree:

in Summer with chestnuts on

in Autumn with only half of the leaves

and the group of trees close to the wood where I go jogging in Summer.

in Summer, the wheat already ripe

in Autumn, starting to color

Autumn last year - circle completed.

Finally should come the Apple tree in the wheat field; but that one is still green AND the next season of wheat is starting to grow. It looks too much like Spring.

That will have to get it's own update once the leaves change color or have fallen off with still no snow around it. It's snowing today - rather early this year, but not the earliest ever!

And again I have noticed that there are more trees I have photos of - but forgot a season in between for this kind of report on them as well. Such is life!!

From Spring to Summer - TREES

So, finally it's Summer here too. A few hot days above 25°C are called summer. 

But you can see it also in how the trees change from fresh green to a darker green - and some already have fruits and seeds on them ready to harvest.

The Walnut tree at the train station and the cherry "orchard" are very green indeed now:

Spring

Summer

The Wallnut tree alone

Also the Linden tree has added some leaves - and seeds nearly ready to fall off to be blown by the wind to new places to sprout:

Spring

Summer

And the Bloodplum tree in front of my house has grown a bit too (and already some lower branches removed once more). The difference between the Spring and Summer photo is not that great here; this tree has it's spring flowers when most are still bare and are in "winter mode":

Spring

Summer

One bush I have been watching this year; growing just opposite of the train station at my workplace:

Spring - leaves barely coming out, later than some other

Summer - the grass already dry, finally in full leaves

And a tree in that village where I work:

Spring - with some flowers left

Summer - with the seeds nearly ready to fall down
and yes, it was close to a thunderstorm that day

And this is taken from the starting train - an apple tree growing in a wheat field:

Spring 

Summer - the wheat already harvested

From Winter to Spring - TREES

(Well -- just catching up with nature; from the temperatures it nearly could be Summer by now.)

Trees in the turn of seasons: (there surely will be an update on this too -- as times passes ;-))


First pair is a Walnut tree at the train station close by my village:

still Winter and snow

now in Spring - the Cherry trees in blossom

Second pair is a Linden tree close to my house I pass by every day:

early morning mist

May sunshine brought out the leaves
(and the flowers too -- what a smell!!)

Third pair is the Bloodplum tree at my house:

Spring flowers - one of the first trees to have them

and the typical red leaves