Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Forsythia: Heralding Spring's Arrival

About a month ago, I wrote a post called In Search of Spring, which featured a couple of pictures of a Forsythia plant with just a few tiny little yellow buds brightening its drab winter branches.

(You can click on the pictures to enlarge them, if you'd like)

This past weekend, as promised in that post, I went back and captured the Forsythia plant with my camera as it looks now.

I enjoy seeing "befores and afters" in decorating projects, but I love God's "before and afters" in Nature even more, don't you?

5 comments:

Julie @ Sweet Chaos said...

forsythia's are one of my favorites. We're not near blooming here in the "north". Only southern Ohio, though, so at least I still get to say southern ;) .

Merisi said...

Exquisite images heralding spring's arrival!

I criss-crossed Europe this past week (six countries in as many days), but nowhere did I see Forsythias in bloom. I spotted daffodils along the avenues of Lyon, France, and snowdrops by a riverbank in Geneva, Switzerland, but no Forsythia.

PAT said...

I love forsythia! Beautiful photos, Janie.
I saw your Bradford Pear photos, too. Absolutely wonderful. Our Cleveland Pears have buds. Can't wait to see them bloom.

Leanne Helums said...

Just beautiful. I had a gotten a root of those from a friend of mine for our old house. I cannot wait to get more planted at our new home.

Deb said...

Janie...such beautiful yellow flowers..you should enter one of your photos in the contest I entered...stop by and pick up the link...you have until sunday to enter...