Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 1753

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.