This beautiful azalea patch is on my daily dog walk route. I prefer the smaller pink flowers, but I have nothing bad to say about their neighboring purple flowers! There are also white ones in this patch.

The cherry blossoms have passed and everyone’s attention turns to weather and looking for summer temps to be steadier. Meanwhile, in my neighborhood the show continues. The streets are lined by these ornamental pear trees that are notoriously weak in storms, but flower just after the cherry blossoms and provide a white snow-like, but smelly, encore to the main act.