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Forgive me, I couldn't help myself. I know that Flickr is currently flooded with approximately 25 million shots of pear blossoms and other blossoming wonders. It really doesn't need my 16 shots added to that, I'm sure, and mine are, overall, probably about of average quality. But I couldn't help myself!
We're finally having some lovely weather. The bigger, older, wiser trees, bred in this climate, are still mostly naked. They know how treacherous Missouri weather can be in April! But the Pear Trees, and the Forsythia and other blossoming things, have sprung into joyous, optimistic bloom, and they're SO lovely and we're SO hungry for them!
Every year, when they bloom, we all hold our collective breath and pray that we don't get a hard frost that will kill them. We came close a night or two but they all seem to have survived beautifully, and we're hoping maybe we're out of danger now.
Anyway, yesterday I went on a walk around the neighborhood with the camera, and here were all these lovely blossoming Pear Trees, Forsythia, etc. So I couldn't help myself, here are my 16 offerings, culled from the insane number of pictures I took. Blame it on SPRING FEVER!!!
Really have a jones to make a banzai run to anywhere...
But I think I'll enjoy these deeelicious antibiotics instead.
Nertz.
This is one of a pair of statues, "Peace", and "Justice" that sit outside the archway of Atlantic Station in Atlanta Georgia. This statue was sculpted by Alexander Stoddart of Scotland out of bronze and brought via ship and via land by horse drawn caission from Savannah to Atlanta Georgia.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Glenn Stadig, a squad leader with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, talks to a soldier from Weapons Tolai, 3rd Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps, at a vehicle checkpoint here, March 22, 2012. In addition to advising Afghan forces in the blocks of Marjah, 2nd Bn., 9th Marines conducted partnered counternarcotics missions with the Afghan National Interdiction Unit in the Bari Desert during Operation Psarlay Taba. The partnered force captured around 26,000 pounds of assorted opium products over the course of the four-month operation.