I got this serviceberry tree last year for a Mother’s Day gift, but by that time it had already bloomed and had set its fruit, so I never saw it in bloom.  Then last August, something decided to devour its leaves, and I feared it would not survive ( see My Serviceberry Saga).  I have been anxiously watching the buds on this tree since January, and finally this past Sunday, it bloomed! Here are a couple pictures I took to commemorate the occasion:

I also happened to be walking along the extremely wet side of my house after torrential rains the night before, and there was a spring beauty blooming in the grass!  I was amazed and delighted, because I had planted a few last spring that a friend had given me, but then took them out because they had Japanese stilt grass mixed in and I definitely didn’t want that.  It never occurred to me that one might have survived sans stilt grass. So here is a picture of my one and only spring beauty: