Lately when I watch the news on TV, I see lots of cherry and magnolia trees in bloom in DC. Makes me want to go to Dumbarton Oaks again to see the cherry tree allee pictured here … but actually, it makes me want to make Massachusetts have the same kind of springs that you get in DC.
I have to admit that although fall is my favorite season, I came, over the years I lived in DC, to long for the onset of spring, simply breath-takingly beautiful, day after day after day.
No such luck up here in Massachusetts. On Friday, we had freezing rain all day. So far, not a single 60-degree day. The daffodils are just beginning to pop up in my yard, but not even the forsythia has bloomed. Still I do have some puny crocuses, emerging daylilies and sorrel, and the two winter-blooming jasmines that I brought back last year from DC are still putting on quite a show. A late spring, for sure.
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