season of pink trees

Yes, while I've been lying in bed almost too sick to notice, spring has been arriving in earnest. Top two, a dwarf peach (foreground, with plum? behind) across the street at Steve & China's; two of our plum tree, where a flock of small birds appeared to be nibbling on blossoms today; and a magnolia one block over.

spring!

1) I *wish* we could grow lupine like this, seen out on a recent walk.

2) Euphorbia, of a low-growing sort.

3) Ceanothus out in the front yard, with euphorbia to the left & rosemary to the right.

a few pics...

...picture uploading very buggy today. I'll try again later.

someday, flickr

Yes, someday, I too will know how to use the fabulous flickr photo site.
Until then, these are from the flickr photos of Rosemary.
Spring IS on the way.

Sorry to say, I don't know what this is... is it in the poppy family?
In any case, in various shades of violet, these are coming into bloom on the campus where I teach...

unstaged still-life

Honestly, what first caught my eye was the morning sunlight illuminating some quite impressive cobwebs. You hardly even see 'em in the afternoon! Then I noticed that this was a rather pleasing assortment of stuff-- it's a shelf in our laundry area, above the washer & dryer-- the place in our house where vases live, and apparently parts of old bouquets that still hold some interest.

signs...

It's tempting call this post 'signs of spring'-- but that seems a bit premature. Yet, there are some cheerful 'signs' out there, and we've been most happy to see the sun these past couple of days...