By the calendar, spring starts in another week, but if you looked at the thermometer and flowering trees, you’d swear it’s been here for longer than that. Lately it seems like everything around here is in bloom, something which my allergies are none too happy about… But I do have to admit that I’m just as obsessed with flowering trees in the spring as I am fall colors in the autumn, so I take my allergy medicine and enjoy the beauty. (Note to a certain whiner–I didn’t adjust the saturation on this at all. The lens just does really rock that much.)
Ornamental pear blossoms. The tree smells like wet dog (to me, anyway, but I'm just weird) but the darn things sure are beautiful.
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