Yesterday about this time I went walking around a few blocks of Durham to check out the spring flowers to see how they compare to those in Seattle.
There were lots of flowers, some flamboyant and some a little more difficult to spot. Strangely enough, for being so much further south, many of the flowers seem to be on the same schedule as those in Seattle.
Here is a selection of what I found.
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| Domesticated blackberry blooming early |
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| Fruit tree almost even with those in my yard in Seattle |
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| Wild violets peeking out shyly from the duff |
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| Bumble bee harvesting pollen from a blooming holly tree |
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| Ubiquitous dandelions |
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| Cherry blossoms a little behind those in Seattle |
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| Dogwoods are particularly showy in the South |
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| More dogwood blossoms seeking the sun |
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| Many of the bulbs had already flowered but these were still going strong |
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| The city wraps many of the trees with tangle-foot to catch the crawling worms that have been a scourge the past couple years |
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