Forsythia Up Close

Forsythia Up Close
Originally uploaded by randubnick.

Over the past few weeks, we have had some warm days, interspersed with cool ones because, after all, we are north of Boston. And now bright yellow forsythia is blooming all over the place. The sun was shining when I took this picture, but I think that forsythia looks like sunshine, even on a cloudy day. I have tried to get some good pictures of forsythia, but usually the bushes are too far away, and the color just doesn't hold up at a distance. But on a recent walk, I came face to face with a forsythia bush, so I took this picture with my phonecam. After I loaded the image into the computer, I still had to play with the saturation just a bit to get that bright, sunny yellow.