Last year’s visit to the Evergreen Arboretum & Gardens was a lovely spring day just about this time of year.

Hostas and other plants in an early spring garden

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Here’s a very springlike display from last year at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, on the first day of spring. #vpc #springflowers

Pretty spring flowers, indoors and out, at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory

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The bleeding heart (decentra) begins to bloom in my garden.

Pink and white bleeding heart flowers start to bloom

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More backyard magnolia magnificence.

Pink and white Japanese magnolia lifts its face to the sun

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The Seattle Design Center in Georgetown has some of the most magnificent pink trees I’ve ever seen. They are planting new ones, but they look so puny compared to the old giants. The first view is from inside the skybridge, which you can see in the second photo.

Pink trees line the streets, seen from the Seattle Design Center on a rainy day

Huge old pink blossom trees at the Seattle Design Center

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It’s been an early spring in the Pacific Northwest, and we so appreciate it!

Pink and white Japanese magnolia begin to bloom against a blue sky

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One of my all-time fave cloudscapes.

Layers of orangey-pink and white clouds in the Florida sky at dusk

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At Flamingo Gardens near Ft. Lauderdale in Florida, there were lots of…flamingos! Does anyone know the name of the white birds? Later: American White Ibis. Thanks, Kitty!

Colorful flamingos and ibises drinking at a water hole

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A fancy dress store on Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale’s answer to Beverly Hills. In color, and black and white. Your preference?

Flounced, feathered, jeweled and gathered white dresses by Zola Keller in a Las Olas shop window

Fancy dresses for a ball

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Right across from my house, the pink tree magnificence, at least when the sun comes out. An early spring this year. Sorry, Boston!

A cherry tree in full bloom, with some bare branches behind it

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