It’s coming! It’s coming!

It’s practically here!

The tulips have died back; the daffodils are fading. (I have photos of those over at Read Me Like a Book.) In its place, all this new loveliness. I don’t know what 90% of the flora is that we have here in our backyard, but it all seems to thrive on benign neglect, which I happily hand out in spades.

From top:
Who can tell me what these pink things are?
Here they are from my kitchen window
Unidentified plant newborns, aren’t they cute?
Tiger Lilies of the future, lining up for duty
I think the blue hyacinths are pretty
This was the only in-focus shot I got of the forsythia bush, out of 21 attempts.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson