We call it juniper, but many Canadians call it tamarack, and anyone can get away calling it larch

Hereabouts, May month is when we slowly start seeing blooms. This
morning we woke up to a glitter storm -- freezing rain forming on all
surfaces. By four o'clock in the afternoon, it was fourteen degrees,
not a bad spring day. So we went for a walk after work.

There's still lots of snow around, especially under north-facing
boughs, or where snow-ploughs pushed it up into black piles. Or
underfoot where paths packed it down. But the junipers are starting
to show their leaves and their blooms. (I call them juniper, the
local name, but I know others call it larch and some call it
tamarack.) Juniper blooms may be my favourite spring flower, even if
they are among the tiniest -- that central bloom is about five mm
wide, a quarter-inch or so.