Spring's In the Air

[I'm having a hard time concentrating on school work this afternoon, so I've decided instead to write several blog posts that have been on my mind. I'll spread them out so there should be a new one every two days or so for the next week and a half. Enjoy!]

Spring's coming! David, our Irish-American Liaison here at Lakeside (RE: house maintenance, gardner, and all-around handy man), pointed out a tree to me in the yard today. It looked like the edges of it were glimmering in the sun - like little droplets of water were hanging on the edge of the tree. It was flower buds!

Evidently, this tree's flowers come out before the leaves and is a good indicator of when Spring's coming. It's the picture above with the 'white' flower and the blury branches in the background.

Over the year's David's planted a grouping of white flowers in the shape of a swan - the symbol for Lakeside - that's coming up out in the front. You'll see it above in the pictures. As you might notice - and so did David - it may have lost it's head, so he might need to plant more.

Also, David's planted nearly 400 tulips around the compound and the leaves of those are coming up - so I can't wait till they're in bloom. Don't worry, I'll take pictures! Then there's the rose garden out front with 100 rose plants, the daffodils coming out already (in the pictures above), and the hyacinths. Spring here should be gorgeous!

On top of that, the weather's warming up and the sun's out a lot more - it's beautiful! :-)