Blossoms in a blue bottle...

(texture-Kim's Tuesday, hard light, 25% opacity)

I much prefer an old aqua blue mason jar, an old ironstone pitcher,

or in this case, an old blue bottle that found it's way from Europe to a favorite antique store of mine, 

over the fanciest of vases.

(texture-Kim's 3003 lighten, 20% opacity)

And I'm not sure that a florist can compete with the first tree blossoms

 that signal the approach of spring.

(texture-Kim's 3003, lighten, 20% opacity)

(PicMonkey b&w focal, hughes texture, hardlight, 20% opacity)

(texture-Kim's carmel, hardlight, 30% opacity)

(texture-Kim's 0603 texture, hardlight, 30% opacity)

While the rest of the country is frozen and snowy, the Pacific Northwest has had a very mild winter 

and "false spring" weather for much of February.

To my snow bound friends, don't give up hope!

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still following,

texture-twist