Backyard View - April 2015

Our backyard made up for the cold of March. At the beginning of the month - the maple was red with its tiny flowers and then developing samaras.

By the 19th the tulip poplar was turning green and red part of the maple was mostly gone.

The samaras were developing nicely.

The violets were blooming in the lawn

As were a few dandelions!

Yesterday I was late getting out for my photo and the sun was already in the top of the maple but the green shows through the crowd of yellowing samaras in the lower part of the tree; the samaras will mature and begin to fly away from the tree soon.

The cherry and plum trees (in the front yard) were so beautiful this year that I couldn't resist including them in this post too!