wednesday walk at St.Petersburg - spring etudes

There are not so many interesting things going at my place right now - basically, they are puddles, melting snow, the naked soil cleared of snow covered with mud and dead leaves... such a stuff. Therefore, on this walk, the main subject of photography was just this beautiful spring light.

Each tree trunk is an epicenter of snow melting, a little spring, an awakening of life. Oasis! Therefore, my walk resembles a journey through the snowy desert ... between the oases.

The tits are lurking around here and there.

Unfortunately, they are so shy and cautious that refused to let me get closer than 150mm - so, no fascinating close-ups today, just some 'portraits in the environment'.

Unfortunately, I am deprived of the opportunity to walk along the seashore (although my city is a port and is located exactly at the Baltic Sea coast, thats a fact!). In winter and spring one may see at the shore many interesting structures and pieces of art created by nature and weather; well, I have to limit myself to what I can find in the local park. In spring, melting piles of snow form palaces of very bizarre configurations.

Ice ponds and shady places that the sun does not have time to warm up during the day are still covered with ice, but some "hot spots" already please my eye with blooming snowdrops and crocuses. Flowers and ice and frost at once.

Silver nuggets are scattered here and there... but soon they all will be gone.