Smells like spring!

Each season has its own magic. Spring is one of my favorites because it is not so hot and the plants bloom, giving us a variety of flowers with beautiful colors.

In addition to colorful flowers, spring is the season when you can see an interesting variety of insects. Therefore, spring is the ideal season for nature photographers, especially for beautiful macro photography.

My first spring photographs were guided by my sense of smell

A week ago I was walking through the woods and a delicious aroma marked my path. The smell was refreshing, a delicious floral scent. As I walked, the smell was very intense until I came upon a great treasure. These were jasmine gardenia plants in bloom.

If you have ever smelled jasmine flowers, they have a penetrating and sweet aroma. It is a fragrance that enchants the senses!

I took a few pictures of the flower buds, but decided to follow these plants for a week to see the sequence of their flowering. It was worth the effort!

After a few days, several buds had opened, revealing delicate white petals. The fragrance was even more intense and the garden was full of bees that alight on these beautiful flowers.

This species of jasmine flowers spirally, always with a small cluster of petals united in the center of the flower.

It took me almost 10 days to take this series. In the last days of a flower's life, its petals lose their turgidity, but their fragrance is still delicious.

There are still days of spring ahead, so I will continue to share photos of the strange things that nature gives us.

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