Starting to see some tiny flowers pop up around the neighborhood!
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Awaiting the magnolias
Nature’s first green
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
– Robert Frost
These are new leaves (and flowers) of a boxelder tree.
Bloodroot blossoms
I came across a large patch of bloodroot the other day, doing their part to celebrate spring.
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Magnolias are opening up!
When I was at the Arboretum a few days ago, most of the magnolia buds weren’t open yet, but a few were showing off their full flowers.
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It sure is refreshing seeing some green out there, even if you have to look close to find it.
Anticipation
The gift of springtime
View more →“A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.”
– David Steindl-Rast
Early spring sunsets
There are so many things to like about early spring sunsets: The bare tree silhouettes, the calling of birds that you haven’t heard in 4-5 months, the later sunset times, the warming temperatures… From Madison’s Olbrich Park.
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