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The peonies this year have been exceptional as you can see by the volume of photos in this post. The weather stayed cool for quite a while allowing these beauties to linger until now that it has finally gotten hot.
These rhododendrons are fireworks of beauty. I love them! I am so grateful to live in such a beautiful place.
It was great to get out to New Pond Farm with my friend Anne to enjoy all the spring color and fresh air. I love this place! It resuscitates my soul.
I rejoice every spring to see the tulips. They are one of my favorite flowers, so honestly vibrant and unabashed in the exuberance of their joy.
In these photos, follow me on my walk, and as I tried to capture the magnitude of the quantities of shells I unexpectedly came across…
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
When visiting my sister and her husband over Easter break, they took us to Secrest Arboretum, which is owned by Ohio State University on a large tract of farmland near Wooster Ohio.
Now, almost all the snow is gone, and these beauties are adorning our lawn, more vigorous than ever. What joy these crocus sing of!
We’ve had some pleasant weather lately, and it has been good to get out in it. I see compositions everywhere are you can see here…
Our garden is glorious this time of year. My husband has a festival of flowers going on here.
I had a glorious time a the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, which was bursting in bloom with cherry blossoms, wisteria, azaleas, lilacs, peonies, and tulips, all somehow magnificent simultaneously.
The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think
– After just returning from Florida, Texas, and California, all of which were far ahead of us in terms of spring blossoming, we were starting to adjust to seeing the first hesitant flowering of spring here, when low and behold, we got snow! These photos were taken with my iPhone on the way to church … Read more
Here are the bouquets and blooms we saw last week in Texas, where spring is further along than here in Connecticut.
Recently I posted this spring’s magnolia photos and ones of our weeping cherry. Here are the other spring tree blossom photos I’ve taken recently in my rambles. These include, ornamental plum, ornamental pear, crab apple, and real fruit bearing trees.
