Little Pops of Color

I know it's hard to believe.

They say that spring is coming...whoever "they" are.

We go through this every year...

...wondering when spring will finally show it's long-awaited face.

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Many of you have had blankets upon blankets of glistening white snow,

and I realize and understand that enough is enough.

 Our winters are usually quite drab here in the south

Between late November and mid March, there isn't much color at all...

...not even white...that you can count on.

 Yet every now and again, even during those bleak and gray days of our winters,

 a tiny little sumpin sumpin takes your eye.

I took these photos back around Christmas at my son's place in middle Tennessee.
Their winters are very much like ours...pretty ugly for the most part.

 I googled them and I think they are beauty berries.
They are growing all around his back yard, heading out into the woods.
 I've never seen them around where I live.

 Aren't they something?
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And on that same day, something else stood out against the mostly naked trees.

Okay horticulture experts,  could this be a greenbrier vine??

There are probably many varieties of green heart-shaped leaves that grow on prickly vines.
This is what google said it could be.
Regardless of what it actually is, it excited me...
...remember, it doesn't take much :)

And my next offering isn't so much about color, but about how the sunlight made them pop.

These wispy fronds were growing in a clump at the top of their half-mile long driveway.

They looked as though they were spun from golden thread.



I have no clue what they looked like in their former life...before the winter came.

I found it difficult to write a decent description about them for Google so I didn't.
Anyone??

And then this afternoon I saw them.

I apologize for the quality of the photo...

...I snapped it from my car.

Could those actually be.......??
YES.....I believe they are!!

It won't be long now.


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