flowers
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Azures and Beauties of Spring
A tiny butterfly with lovely blue wings — on the inside, anyway, meaning you only see the color when they fly.Here’s a pair making more. Quite a complicated taxonomy, evidently. So that was last week. This week I saw only a few of the Azures flitting about. That precious blue! But this week, there were…
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Malus Aforethought
The ornamental crab apples are luxurious right now. These were all found on the byways of Green-Wood.
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Moon and Pear Blossoms
At least we thought they were pear blossoms, a trio of trees perhaps leftover from some old farm.
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Cardinal Haiku
What is there to eat Early spring, before the seeds? Flowers, just flowers.
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And another leaf…
…is unfurled.Meanwhile, a crab apple (Malus) begins to bloom.Less delicately, the thumb-sized bud of a Horse-chestut (Aesculus hippocastanum) still contains its upright chandelier of flowers and leaves.A young seed-ball of the London Plain (Platanus × acerifolia) blown off in Sunday’s high wind and mushed up on contact with the sidewalk. This was a little under…
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Redbudding
The Redbuds (Cercis canadensis) are coming, the Redbuds are coming! Another day, another tree.
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Wild Thing: You Make My Heart Sing
The woodland floor, even in a microscopic sample, is a wonderland. The little bit of wonderland at Pier 1 at Brooklyn Bridge Park is currently aflutter with wildflowers, spring’s advance guard, taking advantage of the sun before the trees shade the ground. Some are already abloom, others are readying to bloom, yet others are just…
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Springtime in Winter
Over the last week, the warm weather forced unexpected blooms. Roses in Sunset Park.One of half-a-dozen blooming cherry trees noted during a short walk in Green-Wood.The overcast light was definitely wintery, making these blooms look subdued and inducing melancholy in this flower-worshipper instead of the vernal joy of true spring.
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Backyard and Beyond 