My new favorite season

[rachelmanija]

Spring has just displaced autumn. I'm shocked too. Everything is bursting into either bloom or tiny bright new leaves.

I have a cherry tree flowering enthusiastically over my deck, scarlet camellias by the kitchen, and daffodils and lunaria (moneyplant) coming up everywhere. I am discovering what things are when they bloom; there were a bunch of unidentifiable plants already in the yard. I planted some tulips and crocuses and forgot about them, and they're coming up. All the saplings I planted in winter have buds or little leaves or flowers; my plum blossom has ended, and pear blossom has begun.

It's absolutely magical. The insects have returned, and I'm finding earthworms when I dig. I have spotted robins, chickadees, Stellar's jays, and ringneck pigeons. If it was up to me, I'd spend all day in the garden.

Photos on Instagram and Facebook.

Comments

[goss]

Yay, flowers! <3

[sholio]

Aaaahhhh, this sounds so wonderful! I'm SO ready for spring and so tired of snow.

[ellenmillion]

+1

[ellenmillion]

This sounds like magic!

[sartorias]

Oh, gorgeous!

[genarti]

Oh, wonderful!

Autumn is my favorite season now that I live in New England, where spring is two months of mud season and two weeks of flowers before summer hits, but when I was a kid in Ohio it was always spring. I love when everything just all of a sudden bursts into glorious life and color.

[kass]

Yay!

[marjorie1170]

Where I live in Ontario spring is so short you blink and it's gone. But I can see loving it if it were an actual season.