Spring's progress

Even though the temperature is chilly today--the high was about 45 degrees Fahrenheit--and it has been raining most of the day--and therefore was rather dark--still spring is making progress in the north county. Forsythia were starting to bloom and so were crocus. O frabjous day!

Yesterday at the Home & Garden Show I took a little journey into the future of spring. The south wing, I think it was, of the Jansen building was the garden section of the show. Local nurseries and landscape designers had set up their booths as gardens, complete with stone paths, fountains, shrubs and trees, and, of course, flowers.

The air was cool, fresh, and fragrant, beautifully fragrant. It did your heart good just to walk in and breathe. In the Bakerview Nursery display I found at least one source of the fragrance, and that was this hyacinth:

I delighted my eyes by walking through the displays several times looking at the bright, colorful flowers.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Beautiful.