A Pretty Blooming Spring

No matter what you throw at it, 

Spring finds a way to add a little beauty to it.

A charred trunk gets a helping hand from an early wild flower 

One of the red buds gets helped along by one of our big bumbles.

I absolutely love these bees. They will fly right up to you,

hovering at head level, as if they are trying to determine 

what you are or what you are doing,  Once satisfied, off they go.

They will even move out of the way if I am weeding the flower bed

and then resume what they were doing once I have finished.

Others are not as patient but still have a job to do.

Wood sorrel blankets huge areas of the yard

along with dutchmen's breeches 

and wild phlox.

I'm not certain when I have seen so many May Apples either.

And red buds bursting with pinkish purple blooms bordering the woodland areas.

While all our storms and drenching rains have caused many difficulties

it has been a bonus for the plants.