Temperatures in the northern hemisphere are finally warming, flowers are blooming, and the sunshine beckons us outside once again. On a nice spring day like today, I thought I'd share some recent colorful images of the season from Germany, Japan, Scotland, the United States, and more.
Scenes of Spring
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Aerial view of flower fields near Keukenhof park, also known as the Garden of Europe, in Lisse, Netherlands, on April 9, 2014. Keukenhof, employing some 30 gardeners, is considered to be the world's largest flower garden displaying millions of flowers every year. #
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Joe Ricker, front, of Dover, New Hampshire, and Evan Adams of South Berwick, Maine, head out to the open waters on Lake Winnipesaukee to fish for Salmon in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, on the opening day of the Salmon season, April 1, 2014. #
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Free Syrian Army fighters walk through a field of flowers during a reconnaissance mission on the Heesh front, for what they said was an operation to take over a checkpoint belonging to the regime's forces, in the countryside of Idlib, on April 10, 2014. #
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Carol McKenna tends to newly born Blackface sheep on Gass Farm in Kirkcowan, Scotland, on April 1, 2014. McKenna farms beef and sheep on Gass Farm, which has been in her family for 82 years. She is one of the growing numbers of women in the UK who are choosing a career in farming, recent figures showed there are currently around 23,000 female farmers in the UK. #
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With the Jefferson Memorial in the background, Steven Paska, 26, of Arlington, Virginia, kneels as he asks Jessica Deegan, 27, his girlfriend of two years, to marry him, near cherry blossom trees in peak bloom in Washington, District of Columbia, on April 10, 2014. Deegan said yes to the surprise proposal. #
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A bee collects pollen in a mustard field in front of the cooling towers of the Temelin nuclear power plant near the South Bohemian city of Tyn nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, on April 12, 2014. #
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North Korean women in colorful traditional dresses are surrounded by flower blossoms known as "Kimilsungia" as they wait to guide guests through a flower exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 14, 2014. The flowers, named after Kim Il Sung, are on display to celebrate the late leader's official birth date of April 15, 1912. #
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