Blossoms & blooms

Despite our consistently weeping skies, the days are longer and the temperatures warmer (albeit not by much...). Nature seems to know when spring arrives even when the rest of us aren't so sure.

Here - a few images of the blossoms and blooms currently in the garden, captured during a dry moment earlier today.
- Apple blossom: a tree in the far west corner of the lot, golden delicious on one side, red on the other. Either my grandfather or great-grandfather grafted it.
- Strawberry flowers - it won't be long now!
- Rhody rescue - came from one of Forrest's job sites; it's huge and didn't miss a beat
- Grape vines - we have red and white
- Pink dogwood - a tree given to my grandmother by my aunt & uncle several decades ago