Last week the magnolias - one of the earliest of the flowering trees - bloomed quickly and then quickly lost their petals to the ground. The late spring and sudden warm weather has compacted some of the blooming schedules.
As I rounded the first corner on my walk to work this morning, I noticed the emerging red buds covering the branches of a neighbor's tree. The redbuds are unique because instead of flowing at the ends of branches, the red flowers spring from nodes all along the limbs. The last 2 or 3 joints at the ends, where the branches will grow longer, sprout green leaves. Both the buds and the leaves are just beginning to grow this week.
This week is also the week that the leaf canopy out over Rock Creek Park and the neighborhoods of the Northwest section of the District emerges. The change from one day to the next is striking, as the scene from the office window turns from bare branches to a green blanket over the course of a few days.
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