April - what beautiful, beautiful rain we've had. All the green things are pushing up and out and flowers are in bud and blooming. April is such a spectacular month! You want to hold it back, for it to last longer, to savor each day...
Everything is blooming most recklessly,
If it were voices instead of colors
There would be an unbelievable singing
Into the heart of the night
Rainer Maria Rilke

Epimedium with new leaves

Forsythia still blooming

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
William Shakespeare

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.  Margaret Atwood

Hostas pushing up at about 3 inches a day

Dutch Iris - never enough of these!

Dogwoods are spring in Atlanta

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.  Bern Williams

Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
L.H. Bailey

close up of epimedium bloom

Centennial Magnolia

Very, very new peaches!

Ants are already on this early peony
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.  Arthur Rubenstein

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