Blossoms

One of my favorite things about Spring is all of the lovely blossoms... on everything. I love how everything goes from gray and dark and drab to green and light and beautiful. I've especially come to appreciate Spring since I moved to Utah. Growing up in Northern California I always appreciated nature and all sorts of beautiful plants a scenic vistas, but I never really appreciated the changes of the seasons until I moved to Utah - because it's so much more drastic and dramatic (seriously, it snowed a couple of weeks ago and today it was in the 60s).

With the warmer weather, all of our plants are beginning to blossom and I wanted to share one plant in particular with you because I think it's so, so pretty. Last summer we planted a Weeping Cherry Tree in our backyard. And since we bought and planted it in July it just had it's green leaves on it's fountain-like branches - this is just a few moments after we planted it:

(Please excuse our weedy, dead grass backyard... it's definitely a work in progress!) When we planted this tree I was so excited to see what it would look like when it was in blossom.

This is the same tree about a week ago - it's blossoms in very tight little buds:

And here's a couple of close ups:

And now, just a little less than a week later, those tight little buds have blossomed into beautiful blossoms:

What a difference a week can make! It is such a pretty little tree, we are really enjoying it.