Geranium Buds

If the rose-hued buds are any indication, it looks like these geranium flowers, fixing to bloom in a bed at Hofstra, will be awfully pretty in pink.

Now, is Google so smart that it actually knew I was standing before these beautiful buds in a cool spring breeze today when it created this gif?

Birdlike Bracts and Petals/Tepals

Overhead, the bracts of a blooming Dove Tree (or Handkerchief Tree) are the attraction as they flutter in the wind like the wings of a dove. On the ground, some tulip petals are reminiscent of some pink and yellow bird I have never the seen the likes of's feathers.

Valentine's Day in an Early May Sky

It almost looked to me like this Eastern Redbud cultivar was celebrating a belated Valentine's Day in the early May sky. Tiny perfect heart-shaped leaves, the first of the season, were open and emerging in today's bright sunlight.

Cordate = Heart💟-Shaped Leaf

Because I keep bumping into plants wearing their hearts on their leaves, cordate has been selected as the official botanical word of the day.

May Twosday in New York at the Beech and the Woods (Dogwoods) Postcard

If today's post were a postcard, the message would simply say: "Wish You Were Here. Love Spring."

The postmark would be dated May Twosday and the carrier would likely be a pigeon.