We are having a most unusual spring. Is that song playing in your head yet? It’s a Most Unusual Day
The new season is finally going full tilt and everybody is blooming, nest building, eating & hmmmming.

But the order of arrival was weird and jumbled. The Stinky Bradfords on the highway dividers are always first. Yes, they are pretty but I never count them because they smell so bad.

The local and naturally occurring Dogwoods are, to my always questionable memory, the natives that generally bloom first. They have only just now gotten to work mid - April. Tardy trees?

I’m used to seeing high flights of Dogwood blossoms just kind of floating up among the winter gray woods like a swarm of still-life white butterflies or an oriental woodcut. That opportunity was a month ago. They are just finally coming out this week while almost everybody else has begun to green up into "ghost" trees (they’re green and tree shaped but you can see right through them).

It leaves questions in my mind. (I’m used to it). Most everybody in tree land beat them to the bloom. I wonder what they waited for. They all seemed to start late and together. Here’s a shot of the Dogwoods outside the courthouse where I work.