Spring is here!

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils
— William Wordsworth

The trees are still bare, the grass is still brown, but the winter is officially over and the signs of spring have appeared. These, the year’s first blossoms, appeared “all at once,” bursting out of the cold, hard earth of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Tree peony bud

Tree peony buds

Snowdrops

Daffodil

Daffodils

Drift of crocuses

Crocuses

Crocus

Small yellow flowers

Blossom breaking through the winter cover

Vinca

Violet

Iris

Camellia

Camellia

Camellia bud

Empty benches and bare branches

Soon, these limbs will be covered with flowers

Ducks swimming in the spring sunshine

Brooklyn Botanic Garden