Photos: Spring Buds

A friend just asked me if our trees are starting to bud yet.  I immediately thought, Macro lens!  Macro lens! -- and out the door I trotted, camera in hand.

Have you ever taken a close look at tiny leaf buds, and the differences between them?

Apricot blossom buds

Apricot blossom buds

Apricot blossom buds

Apricot blossom buds

Apricot blossom buds

Apricot blossom buds

Apricot blossom buds

Sugar maple leaf buds

Sugar maple leaf buds

Sugar maple leaf buds

Sugar maple leaf buds

Sugar maple leaf buds

Sugar maple leaf buds

Cottonwood leaf bud

Cottonwood leaf bud

Here comes Teensy; he always has to come see what I'm doing.

Cherry blossom buds

Cherry blossom buds

Cherry blossom buds

Cherry blossom buds

Teensy, rolling in the warm dirt.  It's 72° today.

Peach tree.  Looks lifeless, but ----

Peach blossom buds

Peach blossom buds

Peach blossom buds

Peach blossom buds

Peach blossom buds

Locust tree, now about 60 feet tall.  Ten 13 years ago, I transplanted it from Loup Park as a two-leaf sprig, only a couple of inches high.

At the base of the tree are stargazer lilies, just coming up.

Locust leaf bud

Grandson Aaron once called this tree a 'June bug tree'.  He knew it had something to do with a big ol' insect of some sort!

Locust leaf buds

Locust leaf buds

Locust leaf buds

Apple tree

In the background are daffodils coming up.

Apple blossom buds

Apple blossom buds

Apple blossom buds

Crabapple blossom buds

Crabapple blossom buds

Crabapple blossom buds

Crabapple tree -- Mother's Day gift from the children, two years ago.

In the background are stones that shape part of our little lily pond.  The poor pond is in bad need of some care.  We have a fountain for it, and tubes that pull water from the pond and make it flow down the stones.