Want a bud?

 

 

And I don't mean "Bud Light!"

We hit 80 degrees F today . . . only ten days after our daytime high was 19 degrees F. (I really need to look up how to insert that degree symbol in this blog!) It was downright HOT and the local plants are responding with a vengeance.

This tree is a Chinese magnolia . . . for reasons that I'll never understand, the flowers bloom first and then fall off the tree. THEN, the leaves come. I'll take the flowers and the leaves anytime as they are so much more attractive that the "stick in the mud" that the tree looks like in its "naked glory."