I went to yoga in the morning, did some light cleaning, then lazed around in my apartment enjoying the sunshine streaming in. On a crisp, sunny day like this one, if I'm at home in the afternoon, it's so tempting to stay in and read in the sun-dappled room -- to enjoy the great indoors. But then I saw a message on twitter that some of the cherry trees were in bloom, so I headed over to check it out.
The garden was gorgeous - and much new growth since last weekend.
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| Contrails dissect the sky |
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| Yellow flowering tree (dogwood?) |
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| A scene from Hansel & Gretel? |
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| Buds & bloom |
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| Backdrop to the Hill-and-Pond Garden |
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| Spring motif? |
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| Trellis at the Hill-and-Pond Garden |
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| Primrose (but neither Everdeen nor Evergreen) |
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| Pansies |
This statue in the Shakespeare Garden reminded me of the butterflies that would come through our backyard in Illinois - if you held still a minute or two and held an arm out, they would land on you. So cool.
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| Girl with Butterfly |
This one reminds me of a pansy, but I'm pretty sure it has a different name:
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| Magnolias in bud & bloom |
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| A tangle of magnolias |
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| Goldfish in the lily pond (no lilies or lotuses yet) |
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| White flowering trees |
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| Crocuses decked out with seeds from a neighbor tree |
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| Attercop! Attercop! Down you drop! You'll never catch me up your tree! |
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| Holly |
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| Ivy |
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| Azalea |
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| Weathervane over the Children's Garden |
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| Poplars? |
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| Young willow leaves backlit in the late afternoon sun |
As it turned out, just two cherry trees -- one on the Cherry Esplanade, and one further in -- were blooming. The rest were bare.
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| Cherry Esplanade - with X's carved in the ground (for fertilizer?) |
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| Daffodils & violets? |
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