Can you believe that 2024 is already coming to an end? As you make plans for the new year, you are probably looking forward to a fresh start and new beginnings, and maybe even making a New Year's resolution to make 2025 your best year yet.
Whether you are busy planning a New Year's party or a trip to the countryside, I hope you will greet 2025 with joy. The wise people say, another year brings another chance to do everything right.
No matter how you decide to celebrate the beginning of our planet Earth's next flight around the Sun, let it be a pleasant night of the outgoing year.While the clock hand moves along the dial to 12, make a wish, it will definitely come true :0)
A Happy New Year!
P.S. There are my watercolors and my Christmas tree decoration on this post.
As I mentioned in the previous post, during the cold months I like to read and review my photos and videos, remembering interesting places, sun and warmth. Today I will share photos from my archive of the wonderful Botanical Garden. I have always been interested in how plants survive high in the mountains, how they can grow on rocks and stones. So a few years ago I was happy to visit the alpine plants section of the Botanical Garden.
There is flora from mountainous regions of the world, such as the European Alps and Pyrenees, Himalayan mountain meadows, North American highland meadows, Mediterranean shrub lands and the southern Alps of Victoria, Australia and New Zealand.
The photograph shows that the dwarf cedar shrub forms low, dense stands about a meter high on ridges. Other alpine plants occupy damp places, meadows or swamps, and have an abundance of primroses such as Primula nipponica and Rhodiola rosea.
Small plants are found where snow accumulates in deep drifts. Saxifraga asiatica and Сinerariа maritima are typical of these harsh habitats and survives in places such as alpine deserts.
As the winter snowpack melts in the Alpine zone, plants experience a burst of growth and flowering. The entire growing season is completed in about three months. Since almost all alpine flora blooms during the same period, a spectacular flower show is often seen.
November in northern latitudes, especially at the end of the month, is often a damp, cold month, with frequent fogs, gray skies overhead and black trees with bare branches.
Sometimes the low sun illuminates the snow-covered trees and they look mysterious, the sky turns blue.During the day, the weather can change dramatically.
In the city, where there is a lot of traffic and warmth, the snow melts quickly, the lawns with drooping dry grass.On the coast, the gray sky hangs low over the banks, the forest is in fog.At the end of November, there is snow and the water partially freezes.
In the cold months, I always want to read more books, your posts, search the Internet for poems by poets I have not read before.
I found this poem written by Thomas Hood (1799-1845) for my November post and decided to illustrate it. It seems that the weather in November is always the same: there was fog, snow was flying with the wind, sometimes it rained and sometimes sun shines.
No sun – no moon!
No morn – no noon –
No dawn – no dusk – no proper time of day.
No sky – no earthly view –
No distance looking blue –
No road – no street – no “t'other side this way” –
No end to any Row –
No indications where the Crescents go –
No top to any steeple –
No recognitions of familiar people –
No courtesies for showing ‘em –
No knowing ‘em!
No traveling at all – no locomotion –
No inkling of the way – no notion –
“No go” by land or ocean –
No mail – no post –
No news from any foreign coast –
No park, no ring – no afternoon gentility –
No company – no nobility –
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member –
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!
Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Born: May 23, 1799, London Died: May 3, 1845 London
