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Star-of-Bethlehem wildflowers (Ornithogalum umbellatum), blooming in dappled light.

East Decatur Greenway
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
13 April 2025.

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▶ Photographer's note:
This is a close-up. The blossoms appear much larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Meike MK 25mm f/1.8
— Focal length: 25.0 mm
— Aperture: ƒ/5.6
— Shutter speed: 1/6400
— ISO: 400
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Don't call it a weed! The small wildflower Trifolium repens is a nitrogen-fixer, enriching the soil.

East Decatur Greenway
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 April 2025.

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▶ Photographer's note:
This is a closeup. The white clover appears much larger in the image than it did in 'real' life.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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A tiny chervil wildflower, blooming in...

Trailhead Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
10 April 2025.

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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ This is a closeup. These tiny blossoms —maybe ⅒ inch wide (¼ cm)— appear much larger in this image than they did in 'real' life.

☞ Can a fellow Flickr-er help me identify exactly what species of chervil this is? Southern chervil (Chaerophyllum tainturieri), perhaps?

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Macro extension tube: 26 mm.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Whereas ox-eye daisies sprout in late summer, it's the fleabane daisies (Erigeron annuus) that spring up now, in early spring!

East Decatur Greenway
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 April 2025.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Over the dun hill,
A tree comes into blossom.
A moment recursive
In Brigid's turn.

Stone Mountain Trail
City of Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
21 March 2025.

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▶ Photographer's note:
Here — at the Candler Park Municipal Golf Course, in the Candler Park neighborhood of Atlanta— the Stone Mountain Trail (managed by the PATH Foundation) and the Freedom Park Trail (managed by the Freedom Park Conservancy) converge along the same route.

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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Early-spring vantage from the South Peachtree Creek Trail.

Mason Mill Park
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
26 March 2025.

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▶ As seen from an elevated wooden boardwalk that switchbacks high over a ravine and rail trestle in the park.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Tiny Confederate violets make their annual late-winter appearance.

East Decatur Greenway
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 March 2025.

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▶ Photographer's notes:

☞ Viola sororia f. priceana is a variant of the common blue violet (Viola sororia), both native to eastern North America. The former is called a Confederate violet due to its colors reminiscent of a Confederate Civil War uniform, i.e., blue and gray.

☞ This is a closeup. The wildflowers were only one centimeter in diameter; they appear much larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.

☞ See the more abundant purple-hued violet variant: here. The two violet types often grow in propinquity.

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▶ Rejection:
On 22 March 2025, a moderator for the Flickr group "GEORGIA, THE PEACH STATE" rejected this photo for NOT displaying "scenic beauty of the State of Georgia, USA." It's difficult to fathom a rationale for the rejection...and none was provided.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Wild snowflakes: non-native —but naturalized— late-winter immigrants!

Trailhead Community Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
3 March 2025.

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▶ "Leucojum vernum —commonly called snowflake, spring snowflake, St. Agnes' flower (for the patron saint of virgins)— is a species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae), native to central and southern Europe from Belgium to Ukraine. Among other places, it is naturalized in the southern US states of Georgia and Florida. Each plant bears a single white flower with greenish marks near the tip of the tepal, on a stem about 4-8 inches tall (10–20 cm), sometimes up to 1.5 feet (45 cm). The bulbs, stems and leaves are highly poisonous if ingested."
— Wikipedia.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Don't call it a weed! Tiny common yellow woodsorrel, looking like a buttercup among green shamrocks.

East Decatur Greenway
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
6 April 2025.

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▶ "Oxalis stricta —commonly known as common yellow woodsorrel, lemon clover, oxalis, pickle plant, shamrock plant, sourgrass— is an herbaceous plan in the woodsorrel family (Oxalidaceae), native to North America and East Asia, growing in woodlands, meadows, and in disturbed areas.

The tiny ¼-inch wide (½ cm) flowers are yellow with four to five petals/rays. The alternate leaves are divided into three distinctively shamrock (heart-shaped) leaflets that can grow up to ¾ inch wide (2 cm). The leaves curl up at night (exhibiting nyctinasty), and open in the day to perform photosynthesis. The mature seed capsules can vigorously disperse seeds up to 16 feet away (5 m), via explosive dehiscence.

All parts of the plant are edible —with tangy lemon and rhubarb-like flavors— but only in small quantities, as the plant's oxalic acid can inhibit calcium absorption."
— Wikipedia.
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Extension tube: 10 mm.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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"There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine,
That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain;
And, the first moment that the sun may shine,
Bright as the sun itself, 'tis out again!"
— William Wordsworth

A fig buttercup wildflower (aka lesser celandine) blooms on Cecilia Creek.

East Decatur Greenway
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
3 March 2025.

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▶ "Ficaria verna —commonly known as lesser celandine, pilewort, and fig buttercup— is a low-growing, hairless, perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), native to Europe and west Asia. The plant is now introduced in North America, where it is considered an invasive species.

Ficaria verna has fleshy dark green, heart-shaped leaves and distinctive flowers with bright yellow, glossy petals. Emerging in late winter, its appearance across the landscape is regarded by many as a harbinger of spring.

Ficaria verna is poisonous and potentially fatal to grazing animals and livestock."
— Wikipedia.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Incipient Georgia spring! An eastern redbud tree (Cercis canadensis) blooms pink against a background of marcescent winter foliage.

East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
17 March 2025.

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▶ Rejections:
☞ On 31 March 2025, the administrator for the Flickr group "Pink Flowers" rejected this photo for NOT displaying pink flowers. What nonsense! Per NC Cooperative Extension: "In early spring, [the redbud tree's] clusters of rose pink to light purple flowers mature and attract many pollinators.."

☞ On 22 March 2025, a moderator for the Flickr group "GEORGIA, THE PEACH STATE" rejected this photo for NOT displaying "scenic beauty of the State of Georgia, USA." It's difficult to fathom any reasonable rationale for the rejection ("reasonable" being the key word).

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Common grape hyacinths (Muscari atlanticum), blooming —wild and untended— in the shade of an oak tree.

Freedom Park Trail
Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
21 March 2025.

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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ This is a closeup. These small hyacinth blossoms —about 6 inches high (15 cm) and 3 inches wide (7½ cm)— appear much larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.
☞ According to NC State Extension, the plant recently has been reclassified from Muscari neglectum to Muscari atlanticum.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Deep freeze hit the Deep South: -8 °C in the morning (17 °F)! Here, a robin perches on a Callery pear tree.

East Decatur Greenway
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
4 January 2025.

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▶ Callery pear trees (Pyrus calleryana) are invasive in the U.S. but the "fruits (which are often assumed to be inedible due to their abundant, cyanide-laced seeds) of the Callery pear are small (less than 3⁄8-inch in diameter, or 1-cm) and hard (almost woody) until softened by frost, after which they are readily eaten by birds, which disperse the seeds in their droppings."
— Wikipedia.

▶ The American robin (Turdus migratorius), on the other hand, is quite at home. Unlike the Callery pear tree, it is native to the U.S.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Warehouse dock during golden hour.

As seen from the Stone Mountain Trail —a 19-mile urban pedestrian trail in—

DeKalb County (Scottdale), Georgia, USA.
13 January 2025.

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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Scroll down five rows on the sign: "Derskin Potable Buildings." Maybe these are mini-breweries? Or, perhaps, a 'drinking' error?

Seen along the...
Arabia Mountain PATH (Polebridge Creek spur)
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
8 December 2023.

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▶ For non-native English speakers:
☞ The word "portable," which was probably the sign-maker's intent, means "capable of being carried or moved about."
☞ The word, "potable," however, means "suitable for drinking."

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Nine miles east of downtown Atlanta on the Stone Mountain Trail...

...a 19-mile urban pedestrian trail in...
DeKalb County (Cedar Park), Georgia, USA.
13 January 2025.

▶ More photos from the Stone Mountain Trail: here.

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Seen from the Stone Mountain Trail...

...a 19-mile urban pedestrian trail, in...
DeKalb County (Scottdale), Georgia, USA.
13 January 2025.

▶ Not a street address!

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A walker rests, bundled against the cold.

South Peachtree Creek Trail
DeKalb County (North Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
20 January 2025.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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Collage di Google di particolari di foto scattate ai partecipanti alla 6 ore di Corsa nella Maremma - Mura Medicee di Grosseto 19 gennaio 2025

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Male catkins of a hazel alder tree (Alnus serrulata), blooming in winter.

South Peachtree Creek Trail
DeKalb County (North Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
20 January 2025.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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