Spring arrives!

The cherry trees are blooming at my condo complex. They're actually several weeks late...they're usually in full bloom by mid January and I've seen plenty of blossoms as early as Christmas. But this year we've had a combination of low rainfall and hard freeze...the temperature dropped as low as 26 degrees in January, our coldest weather in eight years...and the trees have been slow to get their act together. But now they're rounding into form, and if you blow up these pictures it's plain there are many more buds ready to bloom. With a warm weekend forecast, the blossoms should really be pretty next week.