that flowering crabapple out front ...

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

... has come not so much into bloom as into its own.  it seems to be doing particularly well this spring, perhaps it's just expressing relief for having gotten past the winter. 

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Bittersweet Cottage garden

as day's light changes its blooms seem to shift from one shade to another. 

morning

midday

afternoon

twilight

Malus coronaria