It has been chilly out lately, almost enough to convince me that it’s still winter. Yesterday was April 1st, and a snowstorm would have been a good prank, if Mother Nature been in the mood for such things. I guess she wasn’t. We got seasonally appropriate rain showers instead.
During a dry stretch of the day, I went outside to see what signs of spring I might find, and I found quite a few. The maples are blooming. Not that that’s a good thing for me personally (achoo!), but I like the flowers because they’re such a nice shade of red. It’s usually the flowers that have fallen to the ground that alert me to the fact that the trees are blooming. Here, a fallen flower that mimicked the shape of a tree:
There are enough daffodils blooming now that I might pick some today to bring inside.
Violets are sprouting all over the place. Dandelions and ground ivy, too. As of yesterday, only the ground ivy had opened any flowers that I noticed.
I found some other interesting tree flowers, though. I will share pictures of them later, as part of a larger post. Spring has indeed sprung, and I hope to find many flowers to write about this year.