leap day
The bees are buzzin’ around these pretty pinkish-white blossoms at the edge of the woods. I’m not sure what they are. Don’t they look a lot like Pam’s mexican plum? On the other hand a lot of flowering trees look sort of like that in the id books.
Here’s a closer view of the flowers.
Leap day may only come once every four years, but if is always like today it can come as often as it likes. It was a perfect 72 degrees and a flawless blue sky. A great day to be outside.
But it’s also okay just to stay inside and sleep on a pile of clean laundry.
February 29th, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
It’s so cold today that sleeping on the pile of laundry seems like the best thing to do.
If I were to see blooms like this, I’d be outside reading under the blossoming tree.
we have another cold front coming in. - b
March 1st, 2008 @ 1:03 am
It was a beautiful day here in Austin too. Your bee-happy tree does look like a Mexican plum. Does it smell sort of sweet and spicy? Mine does.
Very fragrant. -b
March 1st, 2008 @ 8:18 am
Your photos in these last two posts are a taunt to those of us in the Midwest. We don’t have anything like that flowering yet. If the current nice weather holds, though, it may happen soon.
yes, but come summer the shoe will be on the other foot. -b
March 3rd, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
Your plush kitty makes me want to run my fingers through his/her fur. So comfortable!
March 4th, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
Beautiful photos - it seems the first signs of spring are finally here.
March 6th, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
Looks like a Mexican plum to me. I have two kinds sold to me under the same name by two different nurseries. One has a pinkish tint in the center of the blossoms, the other a greenish tint which always blooms a week or two later. But both smell the same (almost overpoweringly sweet) and produce small plums that are mostly stone.