Dogwood Fall leaves slowly deteriorate as we approach the end of Fall in North Carolina.

This photo was made less than a week ago when the leaves on the dogwood in my yard were not yet at peak color. Today, most of those leaves are gone. Why do so many wonderful, magical things last such a short time?

Dogwood trees are finally in bloom. These blooms show the exquisite detail and beauty that nature provides. Pink dogwoods are my favorites.

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Flowers of the Cornus florida dogwood, one of the spring flowering trees from the park last year.

Edited with Topaz Studio 2

Texture: French Kiss Collection

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The small flower clusters are surrounded by four, showy, petal-like bracts that turn white as they expand. [...]. True flowers are greenish yellow. Total width of each floral display ranges from 3 to 5 inches across.

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May fashions days it will unveil;

and there exists one which I hail.

For me, it stands out from the rest-

for proof May came- it is the best.

Outside my window, grows a tree

that blooms each year- now fifty-three.

When dogwood blossoms open wide-

May bares her beauty- amplified.

-Andrea Dietrich

Wild dogwood branching out in the woods of Tennessee! while visiting the Great Smoky Mountains!

From my archives: I shot the original photo at Bush House Museum in Salem, OR

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Photo processed with Photoshop, Topaz Studio 2, and DDG.

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This white dogwood is one of 4 my dogwoods, it was very high pointing to the blue sky,

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I named it the Dogwood cabin because the dogwood trees framed it beautifully. A terrific early American split-rail fence covered with lichen. One of the cabins in Cades Cove/Smoky Mtn NP.

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Pink dogwoods in bloom

Hartriegel - cornus

Sony A7RIII with FE 90mm 2.8 Macro

Yosemite

This is one I've done before but this one is in color and I've added textures (soooo much fun with textures :))

Two textures by Kerstin Frank.

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Dogwoods in bloom

Red sprigs of white dogwood on a background of dry grass. Colours of nature.

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Dogwood is about to end.

Have a wonderful new week!!

Dogwood leaves

For Tuesday's Textures . . .

And lots of little green flowers, at the intersection of the bracts. On a dogwood tree in Towson, Maryland.

Thank you for looking! Isn't God a great artist?

We have three dogwood trees in our yard. The first to emerge is the white flowers, and they're fully opened now. The next is this red-flowered dogwood. The leaves are still fresh and yellow. The last has yet to emerge.

Dogwood ;-)

Hartriegel - cornus

Sony Alpha 1 with FE 90mm F2.8 Macro

Dogwood Blossom my tree has stopped blooming so I found one I liked in my archives, a classic example.

Spring is here and I'm isolated; however, we have a few beautiful dogwood trees in our Courtyard and I clipped a bloom and took a shoot of it just for you.

From the same dogwood tree as the previous upload