A little sweet cup of little spring pretties!
Fragrant Lily-Of-The-Valley blooms from my garden
in a small porcelain stamped & soda-fired cup!

So good to see that the spring flowering trees are hanging on a little longer than usual… as is this quarantine! At least these trees are adding some beauty to these crazy days!

Some flowering red plum trees in the late afternoon sun… kinda protected in a courtyard as most others are done flowering already.

Some beautiful spring flowers that survived last night’s sudden storm!

Striking foliage, arching green stems and pink “bleeding hearts” are a highlight of every Spring. Too bad they are so fragile & so short-lived.

My friend Tracy was sharing her fragrant Lily-Of-The-Valley blooms with a neighbor for her birthday… and just needed a nice handmade vase to put them in! So glad we could work out a no-contact “delivery”… and a good time to chat & actually see a friend face-to-face for a change!!!

A little bit of Nature’s beauty on another gray, gloomy & rainy day in Chicago.

Spring has sprung outside… as well as inside my condo! I started a few seeds from a purple hyacinth bean vine a little over a week ago and they are popping up all over! They’re doing great as I keep rotating the container as they seem to grow towards the light of the window so fast! I’m hoping to transplant them outside next weekend on my back porch so they can grow up my “curtain” of rusty wheels!

On my way home from the studio, I passed this condo building just two blocks away with these STUNNING pink dogwoods flanking the doorway! The color is incredible, the profusion of blooms beyond imagination and I love how well they play with the architectural details of the building. And yes, I pulled over, stopped the car, and got out crossing the street just to take some photos! They’re THAT stunning!!!

One of my all-time favorite Spring blooms is the “ever-elusive” Yellow Magnolia tree!… yes, YELLOW!!! I happened to find one of them today as I was biking… and it definitely brought a smile!