More Spring Photos

Okay, okay...I know I promised no more Spring Photos but I couldn't resist this one. My daughter Barbara planted four flowering plum trees in front of her house a few years ago and they are absolutely glorious this year. The best ever. Last year they had just a few blossoms.

The Last of the Spring Photos

Ok. This is the end of the Spring photos. I so often seem to be out of town for these few beautiful weeks so this is a treat for me. I have some wonderful flowering quince bushes right outside my front door. In the fall they have fruit the size of lemons. Not edible unfortunately. And my yard is full of these pretty blue flowers.

We call this the cherry pit tree. For the first ten years I lived here I didn't know what kind of cherries it produced as the birds swooped in and I was left with the ground littered with pits and no cherries. I finally found half a cherry one year and discovered it was a sweet cherry tree.

The blossoms on the magnolia tree are quite skimpy this year. The tree lost half its limbs in an ice storm a few years ago but has recovered.