...of the season
is red!
for some reason... while all the bushes have buds looking like this:
obviously, getting there... but not quite ready to open yet...
on the front bush i saw a flash of red... looked - did a double take - and sure enough...
a beautiful blossom - wide open - full and glorious... having survived a recent heavy, wet snow fall too... standing alone amidst the branches and buds. why it's opened when all the other buds are yet to blossom - is a mystery to me. sometimes i guess there are simply those that can't wait... nature is like that - providing small surprises - little packages of joy... special treats...
happy day.....
...for fun
remember old polaroids? you'd take the picture, peel off the front - then have to wait for the shot to appear? and wait... still waiting... finally, to see whether you took a decent photo or not. i found a cool processing feature in my editing toolbox... that makes your finished photo look like a polaroid... how cool is that? of course, i needed to play around with it - just because... not like i don't have better things to do with my time... but you all know how that goes! the to-do list grows longer while i play. sigh... and so it goes...
go have some fun... play... harken back to the old days - like mama said "it'll come back around again..." seems like mama is usually more right - than she is wrong...
happy day.....
nothin' like some spring flowers to brighten the day. i was a bit worried that snow combined with freezing cold temps earlier in the week - might have ruined the blossoms... but it doesn't appear to have done damage... yay! stems are standing upright - bees are continuing to buzz about - if anything, the cold may have enhanced the colors...
can you smell the fragrance?
happy day.....
