Fierce

Anything that dares to bloom and weather this early spring's snowfall has to be fierce.

At the Intersection of Spring and Winter

At the intersection of spring and winter, I ran into some snow and flower buds. 

What's Blooming Now

Snow falls as this spring begins. Already though this winter I have passed in small pockets here and there  silver maples, winter aconite, various witch hazels, snowdrops, hellebores, crocuses and the paperbush, all in bloom.   

The Early Blooms

Though the calendar indicates we are still a couple days  shy of spring and the weathermen say it may snow again in New York, already the earliest of bloomers are doing their thing and right now the sky is blue and clear.

Green!

And a bit of yellow too! I feel like pointing and shouting like people do when they see the blimp. The flowers are coming! 

Is That a Candle in Your Pine Tree...

...or are you just happy to see me, as the expression goes. It's late winter and a great time to start paying attention to what's happening with plants again, up above in a conifer, or at your feet where you might spy some tulips just pushing up out of the ground. 

Late Winter Bloomers

It's early March in New York and the late winter bloom show is in town (and in bud). Today's bud of the day prize goes to the earliest of Viburnums, so pretty in a rosy pink.