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Spring in Missouri

April 18th, 2014 by Lila Steinhoff

Flowers As Far and As High…

I spent a week in southeast Missouri at the beginning of April. The long, hard winter there delayed the spring plants just long enough for me to be there for the show. And it was glorious!

There were flowering Bradford pear trees, tulip trees, redbuds and a tree that looked like a pink waterfall. There were tulips, jonquils, forsythia, hyacinths and tiny blue grape-shaped flowers in the grass. My mother-in-law identified these as grape hyacinths.  Even the dandelions were bright and beautiful.

Enjoy the spring that I saw in the gallery of  pictures below.

 

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  • Wow. Makes the winter seem almost worth it. Easy for me to say. You picked a great time to be there. Very nice photos. Get some dandelion greens before they all bloom. They’re good, and very nutritious. Amazing plants; we found a patch on a 16,000 ft pass in Tibet. Tough little buggers. We’re enjoying lots of cactus flowers.

  • Wow. I remember how gorgeous the flowers were in Paducah when we took the bus there each spring. The publish directions for the dogwood trail for visitors and our bus driver did it – and got us crazy-lost. Lost in a car is one thing – in a bus -and at night after driving for hours – is nuts.

  • Wow. I remember how gorgeous the flowers were in Paducah when we took the bus there each spring. The publish directions for the dogwood trail for visitors and our bus driver did it – and got us crazy-lost. Lost in a car is one thing – in a bus -and at night after driving for hours – is nuts. But we got to see most of western Ky and aouthern Ill. And all their dogwoods.

  • Wow…I was driving to Philly last week and enjoyed seeing the Cherry trees and the dogwoods in around Washington DC in bloom. I looks like Cape is really in Bloom now…great shoots! Thanks for sharing the wealth!