Round 1

Flynn

(21 points)

This is a cat named Herbert and he’s the sweetest boy. All he wants is chin scratches and to sit and roll around in the flowers.

Em voted 2 points and said: "THIS SHOT IS PERFECTION"

Sean voted 2 points and said: "Love this"

AJ voted 1 points and said: "Hi Herbert"

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "A handsome man!!"

kristina voted 2 points and said: "HERBERT"

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 1 points and said: "🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈"

Matt voted 1 points and said: "Herbert I think you dropped part of your ear, bossman. "

Carolyn voted 2 points and said: "Herbert is a cutie!! "

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "Please tell Herbert that I love him ♥️"

Courtney voted 2 points

Aubrie voted 2 points and said: "this is literally perfect"

Jacob voted 1 points and said: "Please tell me you gave Herbert some scritches after taking this picture"

Sammy voted 1 points

TJ

(19 points)

I’m not one to take photos much ever, but I was enjoying the weather here and noticed this male Black Swallowtail Butterfly and instantly knew what to submit for this round. I expect a common theme this round, lots of nature and organics and landscapes and the reasons for loving it and I’m not gonna deviate from that. 

The emergence from winter is always a welcome one, especially coming out of a dreary February. The return of color is of course one of the biggest highlights of spring. Flowers blooming, birds returning, and unfortunately for your outside comfort levels, a lot of annoying bugs returning. But I’m choosing this picture to highlight several things. Like I said, the return of color, butterflies exemplify beautifully. The reemergence of life. And the beauty that even bugs can have. This one in particular clearly just having emerged as a butterfly, not even able to fly yet, just walking around.

 Things like this make me particularly happy about spring, because yes you can see greenery all around and such. But when you see something like this, something you don’t get to see every day you really just stop and enjoy the moment. Take a pause, clear your mind, appreciate the sights, the warmth of the outside, and the slow pace of life you get to feel for those few great moments.

Em voted 2 points

Flynn voted 2 points

Sean voted 2 points and said: "Wow"

AJ voted 1 points

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "This is such a cool shot!!"

kristina voted 2 points and said: "fantastic picture! bugs 🙂"

Matt voted 1 points and said: "I cannot for the life of me figure out what bro is sitting on. Like I could guess a hundred times what that material is and I would never get it. I’m so confused. "

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Wow your description was beautiful 🤍"

Courtney voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 2 points

Jacob voted 1 points

Sammy voted 1 points

gillian voted 1 points and said: "love how deep you went here 🖤🦋"

Kristina

(18 points)

walking this red brick town for months with the cold, hard ground beneath my feet. 

at last, the earth is waking up. 

“the sleepy smell of sun working with chlorophyll filled the air” 🌱

Em voted 1 points and said: "I loooove this one"

Flynn voted 2 points

Sean voted 1 points

AJ voted 1 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "I liked this a lot! With the little plant peeking its way through the brick "

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 2 points and said: "This is my favorite kind of stuff. Great contrast with the dark brick and bright green and purple of the flower. I love inorganic and organic mixing"

Matt voted 2 points and said: "I love how rich the colors are here. They’re very, like, earthy but also very juicy and naturalistic. There’s a vintage something to the way the colors are processed here. The pops of green are just enough, too. It’s like tufts of hair sprout up between fingers; it’s random and scraggly but every one has the undeniable goal of poking up, through the earth, through the bricks. Every blade is lying there almost relaxed, like they’re resting from all the hard work of breaking through the ground. The purple is a nice little flourish too. "

Carolyn voted 2 points

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "Such a cutie little flower 💜"

Courtney voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 2 points and said: "i like the contrast "

Jacob voted 1 points

Sammy voted 1 points

gillian voted -1 points and said: "so hard to pick a downvote i'm sorry 😭 this one just spoke to me the least"

AJ

(16 points)

I had no idea that this was an Azalea bush, for the longest time it was just some green shrubbery. So come to my surprise last year when it was one of the worst weeks in a very long time, the flowers bloomed the same week. I know it was just coincidence, but it felt like a little sign that things were gonna be okay. So to me it symbolizes the passing of time and fleeting moments in life, the “this too shall pass” of it all, and to the new beginnings that spring brings 🌸

Em voted 1 points

Flynn voted 2 points

Sean voted 1 points

kristina voted 2 points and said: "stunning photo "

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 1 points and said: "Very pretty shot, love the pinks(I wanted to give this +2 but messed up and forgot how many upvotes I had sorry)"

Matt voted 2 points and said: "Well composed, I love the sort of crown of flowers that’s formed here, I love the pop of color even if the editing is kinda giving iPhone filter just with how vibrant it is. I’d be interested to know what it originally looked like. (If this is somehow unedited that’s crazy and my bad)"

Carolyn voted 2 points

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Pippin’s flowers 🤍"

Aubrie voted 1 points

Jacob voted 1 points

Sammy voted 1 points

gillian voted 1 points and said: "we also have an azalea bush in front of my house and i love when it blooms 🤗"

Sammy 

(16 points)

Love when you can see things starting to bloom. These little guys are so delicate & show their hearts on their sleeves ❤️ ready for spring

Em voted 1 points

Sean voted 1 points

AJ voted 2 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "I love a bleeding heart "

kristina voted 1 points and said: "bleeding hearts ❣️"

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 1 points

Matt voted 2 points and said: "Really just very pretty and unique. "

Carolyn voted 1 points

Jessie voted 1 points

Courtney voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 1 points and said: "v cute! "

Jacob voted 1 points

gillian voted 2 points and said: "i've been told by a few people that if i was a flower, it would be a bleeding heart 🥹 this is one of the first flowers i learned as a kid, we grew them in our front garden 🩷"

Aubrie

(14 points)

You know it’s spring when all the duck’s migrate back to our ponds and rivers 🦆

Em voted -1 points and said: "I'm so sorry for the downvote! This is such a good shot of the duck, just didn't scream spring to me"

Flynn voted 2 points

Sean voted 2 points and said: "Quack!"

AJ voted 2 points and said: "🦆"

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "Quack quack"

kristina voted 1 points and said: "duck!!! appreciate the submission of an animal"

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 1 points and said: "I like duck"

Matt voted -1 points and said: "I wish there was more of the stuff goin on around the duck bc this lowkey looks like the picture for the Wikipedia entry on ducks like lemme see his home dog, lemme see his neighborhood, gimme that personal touch. "

Carolyn voted 1 points

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Ducks!!! We love ducks in this household 🦆"

Courtney voted 1 points

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "Beautiful female mallard"

Sammy voted 1 points

gillian voted 1 points and said: "fluffy baby ducks and geese in spring >>>"

Jessie

(14 points)

cherry blossom season 🌸

Em voted 1 points

Flynn voted 1 points

AJ voted 1 points

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "Love a cherry blossom baby "

kristina voted -1 points and said: "so true 😭 just felt a litttttle too easy 🫣"

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 2 points and said: "The best cherry blossom shot in my opinion here!"

Matt voted 1 points and said: "Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaats pretty springy alright. "

Carolyn voted 1 points

Courtney voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 1 points

Jacob voted 1 points

Sammy voted 2 points

gillian voted 1 points and said: "cherry blossom stan 🌸🌸🌸"

Sean

(13 points)

Daily path to work. Spring has truly sprung

Em voted 1 points

Flynn voted 1 points

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "Maybe I’m biased because I love anything pink, but this was my favorite "

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 2 points and said: "You have a very lovely walk to work haha. "

Matt voted 1 points and said: "I love how dense the trees are. It’s like you’re under one of those big parachute canopies from elementary school gym class. "

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Cherry blossom gang 🌸"

Courtney voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 1 points and said: "love the colors"

Sammy voted 1 points

gillian voted 2 points and said: "ooooh yeah, cherry blossoms mean spring 🌸"

Em

(12 points)

I have a deep, genuine love for the beauty of clouds that stems back to when I was young. From the fluffy white dots against the bright blue spring sky, the windy wisps mimicking field rows, to the I can only describe as resembling oil paintings.  They're all gorgeous.

The sight of the sky has always brought a sense of freedom, a wonder of what else there is. Spring brings new growth and life. I often would be settling into a new area or going on hours long trips in the spring, getting to see a new sky all along the way. Its fascinating how the spring clouds are so different from the harsh gray of winter.

I have countless pictures in my gallery of the sky, specifically in the spring, from years past. This one is from my favorite place on our walking path, at the top of the hill. One of my favorite overlooks is probably in the mountain range in the far distance (if my angles are right). We'll delve into my love for mountains in another submission, esp as summer comes, I'm sure.

Anyway, can you tell I love spring skies?

Flynn voted -1 points

Sean voted -1 points and said: "I get the photo but also doesn't feel spring"

AJ voted 1 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "This was fun different take from all of the plants!"

kristina voted 1 points and said: "good take! the sky is ever present, but a spring sky in unique. i also share a love for the mountains. and beautiful description"

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 2 points and said: "Hey I know that view"

Matt voted 2 points and said: "I think this is a really beautiful photo. I appreciate especially the attention to the horizon, how it sits at the bottom of the frame. It looked really nice like that. It emphasizes how big and how small our world is at the same time. "

Carolyn voted 2 points

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "⛅️"

Courtney voted 1 points

Jacob voted 1 points

Sammy voted 1 points

gillian voted 1 points and said: "fellow cloud & sky lover 🥹🫶🏻☁️🌅"

Carolyn 

(12 points)

I saw this little flower all by itself on my walk and I was so proud of it!! This winter was so tough and I love spring because it always reminds me everything’s gonna be ok

Em voted 1 points

Sean voted 1 points

AJ voted 1 points

kristina voted 1 points and said: "this is what i think of when i think spring! the greenery and flower buds pushing through the earth. go lil flower!"

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 1 points and said: "I love these little purple flowers, they’re everywhere around us!"

Matt voted 1 points and said: "Ya it do do that in springtime "

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Omg I’m so proud of this flower too 🥹"

Aubrie voted 1 points

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "The crocus flower is widely considered the first sign of spring. nailed it"

Sammy voted 1 points

gillian voted 1 points and said: "love your note here 🥺 some days i feel like the flower, some days i feel like the leaves"

Taylor

(12 points)

I saw this tree in town today and the bright pink colors with all of the people out and about in the background really just screamed “spring” to me. I think spring is a time of awakening and growth for people and plants and this really captured that for me. I love nothing more than seeing how vibrant our community becomes when the weather turns

Em voted 1 points

Flynn voted 1 points

Sean voted 1 points

AJ voted 1 points

Mr. TJ Hummel voted 1 points and said: "West Chester can be so pretty "

Matt voted 1 points and said: "I like how the flowers and the branch sort of cascade across the top of the image, like a river of color. That’s really beautiful and evocative to me. "

Carolyn voted 1 points

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Pink flower gang 🌸"

Aubrie voted 1 points and said: "love the colors!"

Jacob voted 1 points

gillian voted 2 points and said: "YES when town becomes alive again and the tables come out and the streets close...that's when you know winter is done"

gillian

(11 points)

I was sitting outside as the sun set, enjoying the sounds of the birds and the freshly potted flowers and the gentle rock of my arbor swing. And I leaned back and saw the sun peek between the ropes and was hit with a beautiful "yes." Yes patio season is back, yes nights are longer, yes short sleeves are warm enough, yes things are going to be okay, yes, spring is here 🌅🪺🌸

Em voted 1 points

Sean voted 1 points and said: "Alright fancy"

AJ voted 1 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "I love the sun in this! Very pretty!"

kristina voted 1 points and said: "pretty picture! i like that this was the one that focused on the sun. oh how we’ve missed the warm sun ☀️"

Carolyn voted -1 points and said: "very vibey but the other photos were more springy to me :( "

Jessie voted 1 points

Courtney voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 1 points

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "The only one without an animal or plant, but a manmade object that invokes a feeling and fond memory. I love it"

Sammy voted 2 points

Courtney 

(9 points)

“Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the backyard…. It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown stems to glistening leaf buds; from the leaf buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously.” - Zora Neale Hurston

Em voted 1 points

Flynn voted 2 points

Sean voted 1 points

AJ voted 1 points

kristina voted 1 points

Carolyn voted 1 points

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "The first picture I submitted looked so much like this photo that I thought I submitted the wrong photo at first 🤍"

Sammy voted 1 points

Jacob

(6 points)

I found a spot in a fencerow with trees of the various stages of spring growth: bare branches with a few buds, a fully flowered tree, and new growth leaves. Spring arrives, even if some are more slow to take to the warmer weather than others.

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "I love spring trees with their pop of color amongst the green"

kristina voted 1 points and said: "beautiful. i love all the green in contrast with the one flowering tree. peak spring"

Carolyn voted 1 points

Courtney voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 1 points

gillian voted 1 points and said: "i really love your interpretation of the imagery going on here <3 🌳"

Matt

(1 points)

🌿🍃🌿🍃🌿🍃🌿🍃

🍃🌿🍃🌿🍃🌿🍃🌿

🌿🍃🌿🍃🌿🍃🌿🍃

🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

Aprils, forever, with you…

      🪑🍦👵👴🪑

Em voted 1 points

Flynn voted 1 points

Sean voted 1 points

AJ voted 1 points and said: "You really had to stress test my website formatting capabilities on the first round huh 😂"

Taylor voted -1 points and said: "This one just didn’t give me spring as much as the others and was blurrier but it was hard to pick! "

kristina voted 1 points and said: "low quality pic high quality sentiment "

Mr. TJ Hummel voted -1 points and said: "I mean it’s cute just a little blurry even in the high res version and whatnot, but it doesn’t scream spring to me like the others I’m sorry"

Jessie voted -1 points and said: "Sorry friend 😅"

Courtney voted -1 points

Aubrie voted -1 points

Jacob voted -1 points

Sammy voted 1 points

gillian voted 1 points and said: "this is very sweet 🤍 a little blurry, but not enough to ruin the sentiment"