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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Whitsun Within the wreck of fire tulip bloom, new seeds take form and spite bud’s doom. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #garden #bloomscrolling #pentecost #photography

👁️ Closeup of a red tulip going out of bloom with its seed pod visible
📍 Karl Foerster Garden, Bornstedt, Potsdam
📅 14 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ5, -0.7 ev, 1/400s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Poppy A man, once bright, damp cheek, stacks bricks until he’s alone. Red poppy bloom wilts on the wet flagstone. #poem #poemaday #poetry #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #mentalhealth #depression #photography

👁️ Closeup of a poppy lying on wet stone in the rain
📍 Karl Foerster Garden, Bornstedt, Potsdam
📅 14 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ6.3, -0.7 ev, 1/160s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Fever  Raindrops slipping down Japanese maple’s red leaves — her touch cools my head #haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #garden #spring #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #photography

👁️ Raindrops on leaves of a red Japanese maple
📍 Karl Foerster Garden, Bornstedt, Potsdam
📅 14 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ4.5, -0.7 ev, 1/320s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Spring fire Orange flute tulips sway in the rain. Winking torches off on a distant plain. #poem #poemaday #poetry #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #photography

👁️ Orange fluted tulips damp with rain
📍 Karl Foerster Garden, Bornstedt, Potsdam
📅 14 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ4.5, -0.7 ev, 1/320s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Église of breeze Purple comfreys in a garden where the wind is rolling. A green belfry’s airy warden sends purple bells tolling. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #garden #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ Closeup of purple comfrey blooms
📍 Karl Foerster Garden, Bornstedt, Potsdam
📅 14 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ3.5, -0.7 ev, 1/320s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Rain Two poppy pods met in the rain, one still closed, one quite vain. They twisted and turned, one damp dance. Opposing, then opening. Raindrops glance. #poem #poemaday #poetry #poppies #garden #depthoffield #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ Closeup of a two poppy pods wet with rain
📍 Karl Foerster Garden, Bornstedt, Potsdam
📅 14 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ8, -0.7 ev, 1/250s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Clutter Gardener, gloves off, with his callouses laid bare. A shed with old tools and a ladder up to nowhere. #poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #stilllife #clutter #photography

👁️ Interior view of a cluttered garden shed with a ladder and various pieces of wood and other clutter
📍 Havelhöhe Hospital, Gatow, Berlin
📅 5 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 1600, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 1/40s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Frame White dusty window in a weathered red wooden shed. His milky eyes look out at her overgrown flower beds. #poem #poemaday #poetry #photography

👁️ A red-stained wooden shed's window
📍 Havelhöhe Hospital, Gatow, Berlin
📅 5 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ5, -0.7 ev, 1/200s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Dandy lions What’s a weed but a plant where it shouldn’t have been? The teeth of a lion scatter wide on the wind. #poem #poemaday #poetry #dandelion #garden #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ Closeup of dandelion seed heads
📍 Havelhöhe Hospital, Gatow, Berlin
📅 5 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 320, ƒ4.5, -0.7 ev, 1/800s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Brink A red wooden gate with a rusted brass hinge. He waits for the gate to fall into a bridge. #poem #poemaday #poetry #garden #spring #texture #photography

👁️ A red-stained wooden gate with a hinge behind linden leaves
📍 Havelhöhe Hospital, Gatow, Berlin
📅 5 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 1600, ƒ22 -0.7 ev, 1/60s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Planta genista  A humble broom with blooms of gold. Twigs sprouted crowns, their branches foretold. #poem #poemaday #poetry #garden #naturephotography #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ A closeup of a broom blossom (the Latin term for the broom plant, “planta genista”, is the origin of the name of the House of Plantagenet, which in turn is the ancestor of many royal houses)
📍 Havelhöhe Hospital, Gatow, Berlin
📅 5 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 320, ƒ4.5, -0.7 ev, 1/1000s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Replanting The wizened gardener sows his fresh handful of seeds. He’d thawed his soil so his old winters bleed. #poem #poemaday #poetry #gardening #stilllife #nature #photography

👁️ A closeup of sprouts sown in plastic pots
📍 Havelhöhe Hospital, Gatow, Berlin
📅 5 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 250, ƒ4.5, -0.7 ev, 1/400s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Memoriam  An old garden shed, a dusty den of clutter. In my mind’s musty attic, trunks’ hinges lose luster. #poem #poemaday #poetry #garden #stilllife #photography

👁️ Interior view of a cluttered garden shed with a ladder and plastic chair
📍 Havelhöhe Hospital, Gatow, Berlin
📅 5 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 1600, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 1/50s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Barrow-wheel A garden: a row of rusting wheelbarrows, dulled steel. A barrow of bones gathering moss by a creek, waterwheel. #poem #poemaday #poetry #outdoor #garden #metal #symmetry #naturephotography #photography

👁️ A row of wheelbarrows in a garden allotment
📍 Havelhöhe Hospital, Gatow, Berlin
📅 5 May 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 250, ƒ10, -0.7 ev, 1/100s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Caryatid Carved nymph upholds the stone of her sky. A rose, a note: inked lines of cursive lies. #poem #poemaday #poetry #cemetery #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #selectivecolor #photography

👁️ A temple-like tomb with a caryatid figure, at the base of which is a rose and a note left behind
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 160, ƒ4, -0.7 ev, 1/160s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Mnêma Reclining stone lady with a laurel bleached white looks at a family’s names etched into obsidian night. #poem #poemaday #poetry #cemetery #moody #photography

👁️ An elaborate family grave marker with names on it and a reclining stone female figure holding a laurel. “Mnêma” (μνῆμα) is Greek for “memorial”
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ3.2, -0.7 ev, 1/320s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Hero An aching archangel cast in funerary bronze perched on stone marker for military pawns. #poem #poemaday #poetry #cemetery #moody #angel #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

👁️ An elaborate but decaying family tombstone with a weeping bronze angel perched on it
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ2.8, -0.7 ev, 1/200s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Oracle Fleeting footfalls up a high grassy hill. A path to a temple where shadows hold still. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #imagism #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

👁️ A view up a grassy hill to a temple-like Baroque building
📍 Paradise Garden, Klausberg, Park Sanssouci, Potsdam
📅 22 Mar 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 500, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 1/250s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Lie, lack She breathes in violet scent and plucks the lilacs. I see charcoal eyes through their velvet — I look back. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #flowers #lilac #macrophotography #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ A closeup of lilac blossoms
📍 Potsdam
📅 28 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ3.2, -0.7 ev, 1/80s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Rosaceae Pink blush that blooms on her freckled cheeks. An apple blossoms for the sun it seeks. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #flowers #apple #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ A closeup of pink and white apple blossoms
📍 Potsdam
📅 28 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ5, -0.7 ev, 1/2000s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Neighbors Two proud families, each to outdo, yet dwell in houses carved of stone that now, submerged in ivy’s dew, crumble to dust, pride overthrown. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #cemetery #moody #photography

👁️ Two elaborate stone family mausoleums, slowly being overgrown by nature
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ4.5, -0.7 ev, 1/30s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Dew-eye Late spring sun sets into misty trees — her gilded eyes, dried tracks of tears, his grassy knee. #poem #poemaday #poetry #nature #forest #trees #moss #sunset #longexposure #photography

👁️ The sun sets and peeps through the trees of a dense forest; the light dappels a mossy path below
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 1s (long exposure)

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Caput, kaputt Alabaster angel on a blackened stone tomb has lost her head and found her gloom. #poem #poemaday #poetry #cemetery #moody #gothic #angel #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

👁️ A marble angel on a neo-Gothic tomb that is missing her head
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ4.5, -0.7 ev, 1/100s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Departed Old pitted tombstone. Two rough-carved words: “Beloved mother” — of such I’ve heard. #poem #poemaday #poetry #cemetery #tombstone #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

👁️ An Art Deco tombstone with a stylized crucifix, wings, Chi Rho symbol, and the words „Geliebte Mutter“ (Beloved Mother)
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ4.5, -0.7 ev, 1/30s (long exposure)

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Vena aquæ Moss on a stone fountain whose iron mouths rust and dry. Lost spring beneath a mountain, a source beneath stone sky. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #cemetery #moody #photography

👁️ An empty stone fountain that is covered in moss and lichen
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 1.3s (long exposure)

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Sepulcrum Bones interred in a rotunda made of ivy-cloaked stone where a chipped statue sits in the dusk on her stained throne. #poem #poemaday #poetry #mausoleum #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

👁️ An elaborately carved neo-Romanesque stone mausoleum from the early 20th century with a statue inside it just visible
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 1/2s (long exposure)

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Tree rings Forest of tree stumps where old growth once teemed. Carved wooden chapel on a cemetery green. #poem #poemaday #poetry #cemetery #church #chapel #moody #photography

👁️ Detail of an elaborately carved and painted wooden chapel in the Scandinavian style
📍 Norwegian Chapel, Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 1.6s (long exposure)

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

ii. Green blast shoots high and soon mirrors the sky — a bright gold fireball until it resumes the downfall with new shower of shells that scatter, propelled — but no bringer of strife, this sign of new life. A sunflower blooms. ✋🏼🧵

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Fireball A #poetry thread i. A shell, hard core, drops down, cracks soil. From cloud it drops, carves crater. It stops where it fell into mud with a dull thud, explodes, seeks light, expands through cold night. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #naturephotography #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ A closeup of a sunflower blossom
📍 Potsdam
📅 10 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 2000, ƒ4,5, -0.7 ev, 1/60s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Borderline Blackthorn flowers flow through a fence. A border post bears windblown dust. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #flowers #spring #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ A closeup of blackthorn blossoms emerging through a steel fence
📍 Potsdam
📅 10 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ5, -0.7 ev, 1/640s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

iii. Fading shadow of the ribs — they return from whence they came, stone Eve gave back her bone to join the earth’s ribs again. ✋🏼🧵

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

ii. They linger, can’t remain, waiting for the final drip of raindrops in their cracks that lets their structure slip into the sand and grass below to join the strata of the soil where moss and lichen grow, working their gentle, patient toil. 🧵👇🏼

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Resurrexit A #poetry thread i. Stained sandstone ribs, chest open to the sky, grey traces of a vault, stone ghost, a paused goodbye. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #longexposure #photography

👁️ Stone arches of a modernist family mausoleum deliberately echoing the ruins of a church
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 0.6s (long exposure)

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

iii. A far-off day, these arms will fall, worn out at last, bent by a squall: at last the cross will find its rest, and bask in warmth of sun in west. ✋🏼🧵

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

ii. from dots of rain. Each wind’s brief gust that tugs at lichen — which clings like rust — peels one more speck of sand and lime from stony limbs that hold up time. 🧵👇🏼

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Rest A #poetry thread i. In sinking sun, a Celtic cross of sandstone dressed in cloak of moss, grey arms bedecked in pale green furs while its engravings softly blur 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #cemetery #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

👁️ A closeup of a tombstone shaped like a Celtic cross, with moss and lichen growing on it
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 250, ƒ7,1, -0.7 ev, 1/125s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Dad Remnants of an epitaph on a mossy stone. Echoes of a belly laugh from before I was alone. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #cemetery #moody #photography

👁️ A closeup of a tombstone with metal letters, some of which are missing
📍 Southwest Cemetery, Stahnsdorf
📅 1 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ8, -0.7 ev, 1/50s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Viola A purple bunch of pansies in a pot of cobalt blue on a porch. Their blossoms dancing to light up the face I knew. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #flowers #spring #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ A closeup of purple and yellow pansies in a bright blue pot on a porch with a brick wall
📍 Potsdam
📅 10 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 400, ƒ4, -0.7 ev, 1/320s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Roots An old tree root, an oaken claw digs deep in the soil. Winter thaw exposes talons in the earth seizing water from the deeps — twigs give birth. #poem #poemaday #poetry #naturephotography #trees #forest #spring #macrophotography #bloomscrolling #photography

👁️ A closeup of a tree root system resembling a claw or hand
📍 Potsdam
📅 10 Apr 2026
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 400, ƒ4, -0.7 ev, 1/160s

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Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Forsythia and witch hazel are different species. I miss American witch hazels. The forsythias I see in Germany remind me of them. One kind of witch hazel blooms about the same time as forsythias. The time both blossom in early spring can be used to know when roses should get their spring trim.

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