Category: Green grass, flowers and plants

Here it is, this year’s beautiful May Basket from my dear sister!  It makes me feel like I am in a late spring meadow with my favorite Queen Anne’s Lace!

And these are the sweetest little pink tulips ever!

It seems like every year there is also something new and exciting in the May Basket.  This year it was this yellow “puff”, a very lovely spherical element.    I have no idea what it is.  It seems like the center of some flower with the petals removed.  The basket came from Mary Kay’s Flowers and Gifts, so I may have to give them a call and satisfy my curiosity!

 

Have I mentioned that Iowa State University has the most beautiful campus I’ve ever seen?

Every day the last couple of weeks, when I head out into Ames, I almost faint, the spring flowering show has been so beautiful.  You know how it usually goes?  You wait all of Feb, March and some of April for the blossoms to pop, and a day or so after they do, you get an April shower, and it’s all gone, in the blink of an eye.  And usually it’s a procession, yellow forsythia first, then red buds, THEN white apple blossoms and finally the violets and crab apples.  As the next blossom appears, the previous ones fade.  This year, it’s all out there at once, lingering until the last one on stage has made its appearance!

We’ve had a gentle rain this morning on this side of town, but if the skies clear, I think I can get out there and get some more photos of this once in a lifetime spring!

 

I love that you can still find patches of violets.

I had to smile the other day when a group of sometimes rough little boys at school came in from recess with their fists carrying  bunches of violets.  They were in such a rush to get the fragile little flowers into some water.  Flowers bring out the best in all of us!