Sacramento is apparently the world’s second most treed city (Paris is the first.) I live in Midtown (near downtown), and while I don’t think there are more trees than people, it’s pretty close. I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed trees as much as I do here in Sac. Last summer, they shaded my (unairconditioned) house and made it pleasant even on 100F days. In the fall, they turned lovely colors. In the winter they stood dormant and skeletal, and now that it’s spring, they’re budding and flowering and leafing and quite beautiful (as long as I don’t think about what it’s doing to my allergies. I’m firmly blaming the weed pollen for my miserable allergies this year–I refuse to believe that trees as beautiful as these could be making me so miserable.)
Anyway, my street is home to some of my favorite trees – saucer magnolias, Japanese maples, and the ones in the following pictures: flowering dogwoods (both pink and white ones!) I’ve been keeping an eye on this tree, hoping to get some good morning or afternoon light, and this morning I finally scored on that count.
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Beautiful pictures. We moved from Roseville to Moscow Id last year, and its not even close to spring here. So seeing these pictures reminds of spring back at ‘home’. Thanks!