spring in and around the Schönbuch forest 2020-04-15

The forest turns green—while the beeches are about to open their buds or just have opened them in the previous days, birches already have their leaves; wild cherries are in full bloom and—especially in the evenings—spread their sweet fragrance, and so do most of the fruit trees around the forest; rapeseed fields have also started to flower—that´s how to briefly summarize the current progress of spring here.

Here I want to share a couple of impressions of a late afternoon cycling tour through the southeastern part of the Schönbuch forest. Let´s start with another set of images of the tracks through the light-flooded spring forest:

forest tracks photographed with 50 mm (5D)

flowering wild cherries

flowering wild cherry tree

flowering wild cherry tree

flowering wild cherry trees in the spring forest

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apple blossom 2018-04-22

apple blossom

fruit tree blossom

pear tree petals on the soil

apple blossom

Infrared: Spring in and around the Schönbuch forest 2018-04-20

contrails over the spring forest (infrared)

pear blossom

forest track in the Schönbuch (infrared)

spring forest in infrared

flowering wild cherry tree (Prunus avium) in the evening light (infrared)

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flowering wild cherry trees in the evening light

Willow blossom 2020-04-09

noon light evening light 1 evening light 2
flowering willow trees

These willows flower at the same time when their leaves emerge. From far, the yellow colour might be easily mistaken as new leaves, but when looking closer, the yellow catkins impress by their vast numbers.

Both willow trees on the photo above belong to the same species. The right (yellow flowering) tree is male, while the left female willow bears greenish catkins (willows are dioecious, i.e. female and male flowers are on separate individuals).

male willow catkins

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female willow catkins

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signs of spring II 2020-04-09

Stellaria holostea

var 1 var 2
Stellaria holostea (addersmeat)

Acer platanoides (Norway maple) blossom

Lamium maculatum (dead-nettle) blossom