This tree greeted us when we pulled into the driveway. I was informed that it's been blooming since before Christmas.
Yes, since BEFORE Christmas. And that's when I shifted straight into tourist mode and snapped photo after photo of this mysterious tree that started blooming before Christmas.
We northerners are not familiar with such anomalies. I'll bet the trees in Chicago still look like Skeletor.
Two days ago, when La and I were walking home from school I noticed bright coral blooms on the side of the street. I pointed them out to La and she ran toward them like a child who is about to ransack a newly budding tree.
And just when I came to that realization and yelled, "DO NOT PICK THAT FLOW......errrrr," she done gone picked the dern thing.
Whoopsies!
But it was pretty mama! And I have marker on my face.
... And it smells so nice.
Just don't do it again you little flower snatcher!
And then we walked home, right past this lovely magnolia (that's a magnolia, right?) in our neighbor Ruth's yard.
(Ruth is 102 years old. Her little sister is 100 and flies in from North Carolina to visit from time to time. Ruth still cuts her own grass and rakes her own leaves and hangs hearts all over her front door for Valentine's Day and wears polyester pants while doing all of those things. She's a neat gal!)
The daffodils are popping up in our back yard and our Dogwood has little buds all over it. I guess it's officially spring in Alabama. I can't remember a day in the past two weeks where it didn't get up around 70 degrees.
Man, I'm really starting like it here.
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Just wait until the hot humid summer... Dohn Dohn Dohn... you're really going to be missing your little sis up in Chicago!
Ahhh! I know, I know! And Dr P has never really truly seen the "hot and bothered" version of me. WATCHOUT! Can be scary. I have a feeling we'll be taking frequent trips to the north!
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