As the trout illies and spring beauties peak, the red buds are just beginning to show color while [View all]
the backyard magnolia blossoms are spent for another year. The forsythias are dropping their yellow flowers onto the soggy ground and dogwoods, red buckeyes and lilacs are still "coming attractions".
In the part of the meadow we have claimed for our lawn, smaller even than the three inch tall spring beauties, are literally thousands of what I can only call "micro-blooms"---matchhead size four-petaled flowers that range from blue to pink to white. The temporary carpet colors the sod beneath blooming peach, cherry, plum and apricot trees.
The edge of the hardwoods teems with the regal trout lillies and the make-me-smile dutchman's breeches nodding under wild sloes in bloom.
Why am I pointing out all of this? It's my way of taking inventory of beauty that might go unseen or taken for granted as I prepare to spend the day outside where spring is taking place.
Later.
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