One warm day is enough...

What do we all like about Colorado? Changes, I think. Everything is changing rapidly here. The weather is never predictable. And even one warm spring day is enough for all plants to start sprouting leaves, flowers, branches...

 

All we could see yesterday were buds... But today they are fragrant flowers. White, elegant and stunningly beautiful!

Some trees started with leaves (that sounds reasonable to me)...

And some with flowers (looks a bit risky to me, but who am I to judge?).

Blooming Crabtree is stunning. I would never get tired of seeing them and wish they would go for whole summer...

Hoverflies are busy working on collecting nectar...

I am not sure which I like better - the buds that are just opening or fully blooming branches. They are all so beautiful!

But I definitely love semi-opened buds ;)

How is it that only one flower is fully open, while the rest are still waiting for something?

Love this bush. A nice combination of green leaves and subtle yellow flowers ready to open.

These flowers can be found along roads and trails. So small and simple, and mostly unnoticed. But aren't they beautiful?

They looked small and insignificant when I took this picture... But when I viewed it on the big screen, they looked like a bouquet of roses, didn't they?

Another example of small and quite invisible flowers. They are so tiny and barely show up. But if you move your eyes closer to them, they may surprise you!

The very first bug I found this year! Actually, I only found it in pictures and completely missed it in the field ;) Need to bring glasses next time I go photo-hunting ;)

This is not a thorn... it's a spear!

The pictures were taken on the last day of March 2024.