Friday open thread: flower report

[dolorosa_12]

I walked to the swimming pool this morning accompanied by a dawn chorus of birdsong: wood pigeons, sparrows, and blackbirds. When I emerged for the return journey, Ely was shrouded in misty rain, and the cathedral was disappearing into the sky.

Everywhere there are signs of spring.

Today's open thread is, quite simply: what are the flowers like where you are? Here, we've got cherry and plum blossom, daffodil bulbs emerging from the soil, flowering rosemary, and buds just starting to appear on one of the quince trees. Here's a photoset I put up on Instagram.

Please feel free to share photos or descriptions of your own floral scenery in the comments. For those of you in the southern hemisphere, flowers are probably going to be harder to come by, so instead: what is the plant life doing as things turn autumnal?

Comments

Silicon Valley, California

[ng_moonmoth]

Essentially no rain for nearly two months, so the hillsides that are generally bright green this time of year are already turning noticeably brown. But we have had daffodils blooming, the ornamental quince that blossoms every year about Chinese New Year time (it's red, which links it nicely to the holiday) went off a couple weeks late, the camellias are occasionally blossoming, and many of the trees in the area are blossoming. Most notably, the apricots in the heritage orchard.

Re: Silicon Valley, California

[dolorosa_12]

Oh how beautiful! It sounds as if you're surrounded by blossoming trees. I'm really sorry to hear about the drought though.