Spring Has Sprung

Just in time for all the lovely spring trees to be in bloom, it has to be snowing today. I'm  holding out hope that the lilac blossoms in the backyard will weather this storm, but not holding my breath. It seems like every year when the weather just starts to get warm enough for all the trees to be growing leaves, it snows heavily enough to start snapping branches. That's Colorado for you.

Snow...again? *sigh*

The general rule of thumb here is to wait until at least Mother's Day to start planting your summer flowers and vegetable garden. Of course, last year it snowed that whole weekend, so it was a week later than usual to start planting. I'm itching to get some gladiolus bulbs planted, but again it's best to wait until the freezing weather is done. We used to have several in the front yard and they were one of my favorites, but my dad got a little overzealous with weedkiller a couple summers ago and took them all out.

Luckily, one of the days off I had this week was gorgeous (75 degrees and sunny all day long) so I went and found a bunch of spring blossoms to photograph. So in lieu of having much else to say, I'm going to post some lovely spring pictures. I'm definitely not an expert on the different types of trees that are in bloom, but I like the variety anyway. Enjoy!

I like how all the branches came together in this shot.

I see these all over the place (some even appeared in the back yard), but I didn't know what they were, thanks to 20 minutes of Google searching, I am fairly confident that they're grape hyacinths.

I love the mixture of light pink flowers with bright green leaves in this one.

If you enlarge this one, you'll see little white blossoms amongst the red leaves.

And just for variety, some darker pink blossoms.

These white flowers had hints of light pink and grew in little ball-shaped clusters.

Lilacs in the back yard (it smells fantastic back there this time of year).

And a few tulips because it's not spring without tulips in blossom.