I made sure to bring my camera the next morning and snapped quick photos of all the blooms I passed on my way to work. There were a surprising number of them.
The photos are not very good quality, because I took them from behind the wheel of my car, some of them as I was stopped at a stop sign! I just wanted to capture the evidence of our extremely early spring to share with my sister in New Hampshire. Since I didn't get around to posting these until the weekend, I suspect that she'll be enjoying blooms of her own by now.
Many of these trees and shrubs don't normally bloom for another month around here, like the magnolia above.
It's kind of crazy seeing all the different kinds of flowers blooming at the same time. I guess that's the price we have to pay for skipping winter, which is okay by me!
Beautiful. I missed all this early blooming while I was away last week. When I left on Sunday the 18th, only a few early crocus's were up in my neighborhood. When I returned on the 25th, everything was up and blooming including my hyacinths. My azalea's haven't started yet, but I'm sure they'll be coming into bloom any day now. So pretty.... I love spring.
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