April 11, 2005

Can this be spring?

In University Heights, here in Madison today, a statue crouches, mournful somehow despite all the blue flowers, and the storybook house cowers within a cage of leafless trees:

Stops on a spring walk. Stops on a spring walk.

Magnolia buds are willing to begin the effort to pop open:

Stops on a spring walk. Stops on a spring walk.

There are assorted floral manifestations of conventional spring prettiness:

Stops on a spring walk. Stops on a spring walk.

And just as I arrive home, I see this chalking -- maybe a child's interpretation of the spring flower or maybe of the sun:

Stops on a spring walk.

2 comments:

Ann Althouse said...

They are pink when still budlike. When they fully expand the pinkness will stretch out and they'll seem almost white.

Ann Althouse said...

Thanks, Tamar!