Pink Magnolias

One of my favorite Spring-flowering trees is the Japanese Magnolia Tree. You may know it as a "Tulip tree," or a "Saucer Magnolia tree" ... but whatever you call it, it is truly breathtaking this time of year. Here are a few close up pictures I captured of blossoms on a tree in Vicksburg. Aren't they exquisite! — and no two are alike. You can see in this next picture why it is also called a "Saucer Magnolia." I know we still have several weeks of winter left, but I think Japanese Magnolia trees are one of God's loveliest ways to remind us that Spring is, indeed, just around the corner!