Spring Overdose!

Spring Overdose!, originally uploaded by Mark VanDyke Photography.

Words of the photographer :
"Are you sick and tired of the pink pictures yet!! I just can't get enough of this place! It is a small plot of land, probably insignificant for much of the year, but right now I can get lost in small scenes within the landscape. Nothing is better than rounding a curve in the road and seeing several hundred of these babies next to each other, turning the hillsides pink with their blossoms. The only thing I could compare it with is when the mountain sides in the Roan Highlands turn pink in mid-June with the Rhododendron bloom. And then there is what you cannot see in the picture...the buzz and hum of the bees; the sweet smell on the warm air; the song and cackle of birds...it is everything that spring is supposed to be--new, colorful, vibrant...alive.

The only negative part--I'm still shooting over and through a wire fence. I haven't had a chance yet to get in touch with the farm managers to see if they would mind me stomping around from time to time. The farm is owned and run as a research arm of Clemson University. I think in totality they have some 50+ acres of peach trees, as well as an assorted variety of other fruit trees and small fruit vines and the such."