weather blooms

[lobelia321]

Suddenly, there is an explosion of blooms and leaves everywhere. It stole upon us, seemingly overnight. It's often like that with spring: for months, it seems as if the trees will never not be bare, then all of a sudden, behind our backs, they all burst into leaf. The apple tree in our front yard has every limb covered in fuzzy light-green. Looking out through my eyrie window, I can see three trees without foliage; everything else is exuberant and extravagant: light green, shiny green, furry green, dark green, yellow green, green sprinkled with white, brilliant cream, yellow and trailing.

I can even see a small blue butterfly. And earlier today, a bee hovered in front of the kitchen window, suspended Matrix-like.

There are two magnolia trees in our neighbourhood, like queens. I wonder what an entire orchard of them would look like. They are only nice for a week per year; for most of it, they are gloomy.

There is a great variety of leaf shapes, also: lancet, pointy, stick-like, tiny and in clumps, woolly from afar, hanging down. And that birch tree in the left middle distance: long kittens, or whatever they are called, orangey-beige, trailing from each branch.

I just discovered five more bare trees! I wasn't looking hard enough. Spring is not synchronised.

Comments

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

SPRING! Thank god. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

It hath sprung.

Hm, where's a lobelia icon when you need one?

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

no leaves round here. :( our house backs onto a park and it's still all bare. there's blossom though, and cattykins.

b.x :/

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Aha, 'tis t'south!

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

i know what you mean about spring showing up overnight. yesterday, i was driving home from lunch and spotted daffodils and golden rod and today the trees are tinged with pale green. i haven't seen any magnolia but they can't be far behind since they're early-bloomers as well.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Is goldenrod that big bush-like shrub with all the yellow hanging down in sprigs?

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

i just had a look at goldenrod and that's not what i saw. it's the bushes which leaves sprout gold-coloured and turn green in summer ...

here's an icon to make up for it:

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

This is so sweet! What gorgeous blossoms.

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

i love lobelia - i always try to have some in pots.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

i love lobelia - i always try to have some in pots.

Um, the Giant Lobelia of Ethiopia?

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

yes! in a not really sort of way ...