Spring Starts

Spring has officially arrived in Colorado. Flowers are blooming, trees are budding, and bugs are flying all around. While we still have occasional freezes over night, everything is finally awakening from the cold blanket of winter. To celebrate, I took my camera along with the new macro lens I recently purchased and snapped a few pictures of my mother's garden and our tree out front. This is the only time of year our tree actually changes. After this, it stays green and plastic-looking until late December, usually around Christmas. Here's hoping for a beautifully inspirational season.

This isn't her whole garden, just the flowers in the front of the house. The backyard is another story. Fruit trees, Strawberry bushes, raspberry bushes, and blackberry bushes, along with a random pumpkin vine that was produced by accident one year when discarding pumpkin seeds from a Halloween carving into the compost pile. I love happy accidents.