It feels like spring has been a long time coming. Seeing these bright and cheery crocuses blooming is a very good reminder that yes, spring is coming if not here.

A honeybee works a stand of New England Asters.
This aster?, species unknown, added cheerful colour to my walk through some tall brush.
My sister-in-law has and tends an amazing flower garden. See for yourself.
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A Manitoba Maples’ twigs and flowers draw a very open lacework curtain across the sky.
This brilliant African Violet thrives in our east facing kitchen window.
These pretty flowers (I don’t know what they are, perhaps you do) grace the drainage ditch paralleling a country road.
Dianthus, in bloom.