Blossoms Filled With Spring

My dogwood barely bloomed last spring. I thought I would lose it from drought or a disease but saw no signs of either. The leaves were healthy, no branches were dropping, no signs of damage or change to the bark, so I just waited for this spring. And here we are with a new year of dogwood blossoms, just opened, filled with the sunshine of spring.

About these photos

After a particularly rough winter spring has sprung all at once in my yard. These photos, and the ones I’ll be sharing of what’s blooming in my yard right now, are actually from April 2024 when I photographed all the same things that are in my yard blooming right now. This year I’m renewing my garden, clearing out the overgrown area I haven’t used for a few years and building out or renewing the flower beds and I’m barely taking time for photos.

I loved these photos and used very few that year. My little black cat Mimi, who’d shared my yard with me since 2012 and her life since 2007, was in her last months and I focused on her, and taking the most beautiful photos of her and everything growing and blooming was a balm to my soul in those months. That’s her in the light on the fresh green grass from the same day these dogwood photos were taken. Prescient, perhaps, is she looking into her future? So I share those photos as I remember her, that year and all the other springs we spent out there.

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