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.