Return to 5th Street

I went back to Mebane's 5th Street about 2:30 this afternoon, with my Nikon. What a difference two days' time makes, and how different the light with the sun four hours earlier than evening. Neither the Dogwoods nor the Red Buds seemed so numerous today, especially the Red Buds, whose buds had already burst a week ago and so their blooms were nearer their end than the Dogwoods' were.
    Last week, the stately row of Red Buds near my Chapel Hill office cooled the eye and spirits with their darker-violet blooms. What will they say to me tomorrow?

Close-up of the tree shown to the right above

The yard in the next block going north

Across the street

And more Dogwoods beyond

My heart leaps up at the greening and blooming of Nature

Ah, Spring! I'd long thought that Autumn was my favorite season, but this year Spring is affecting me fondly. My wife and I drove to the Mebane Public Library yesterday. The early evening sun lit the front yards along Fifth Street, their stunning display of dozens and dozens of fully blooming Dogwoods and Red Buds. (The two photos aren't mine, but they were identified on the web as having been taken in in North Carolina.)
    My heart this year gladdens at the barest hint of green returning to our wintering Bermuda grass:

    And the blooms, the blooms!

    (That's Siegfried in the distance.)