Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.  ~Albert Schweitzer

Each day brings more plants into leaf and flower. As I wander through the woods and gardens each morning, I realize that it wasn’t just color that I missed in this long winter past. It was the amazing cornucopia of shape and form that emerges from the trees and shrubs, the miracle of plants springing up from the bare earth in fresh new clothes. The early morning light gets caught in the shape and trembling of leaf and flower and I get lost in the looking.  Enjoy.

The heart of the bleeding heart

Daphne Carol Mackie

Oakleaf hydrangea leaf

Lily of the valley

Weeping Japanese maple

Hakone grass

Brunnera leaf

Japanese maple

Peach iris and lamb’s ear

Tulip in light

Weeping red Japanese maple

Spirea and daylily foliage

Golden bleeding heart

Geum flowers

Lamium leaves

Solomon’s seal

Viola whiskers

Oak trees