Saturday, May 05, 2007
Redbuds
It is redbud season in Princeton. Up close, they look like this:
And this is "the view from my window":
It was a beautiful day today.
3 Comments:
By 
SR, at
Sun May 06, 12:56:00 AM:
Beautiful. My favorite time of year is when the buds and blossoms come out. Fortunately here in N. California that is around Valentine's Day. There is no other greenery, only a blizzard of white flowers.
By 
, at
Sun May 06, 11:27:00 AM:
Here in eastern Nebraska an early warming period in late March/early April brought the redbuds out -- and then a week of temperatures as low as the 20s almost wiped them out. What would have been a flush equal to what you depict turned out to be a weak flicker of violet.
Damn that Global Warming!!
By Charlottesvillain, at
Mon May 07, 09:23:00 AM:
Cool. Our redbud all bloomed the first week in April. Here's something I bet you didn't know: the flowers are edible. Apparently the mountain folk used to eat the blossoms fried (hmmmm, fried...) but they are tasty right off the branch. Try them in a salad sometime.
