Spring on Wolverine Lake: Flowers

April showers brought May flowers. The flowering trees in particular have been spectacular this spring after a couple of down years because of the harsh winters.

First on the scene, crocuses:

Quince blossoms:

Forsythia (soon to be the home of Myrtle Mallard and her nest):

Peach blossoms:

Flowering crabapple:

(Alas, the last Spring for our neighbor's flowering crabapple. It's going to have to come down to make room for their addition.)

Tulips:

Daffodils:

Crystal hummingbirds:

(Okay, you caught me. That one wasn't a flower.)

Something purple:

Cherry blossoms:

Apple blossoms:

Dogwood:

First, the initial blooming. Then...

And just now coming into their own, the greatest-smelling flower of all, lilacs:

Hurrah for the California poppy!

I got some bad news at work today and needed a bit of cheering up. As coincidence would have it, a friend of mine on Facebook is doing the "put up pictures of flowers instead of all the depressing, awful stuff that people seem to post on FB these days" thing. The key to this virtual floral chain-letter is that if you "like" the picture the other person puts up, that person has to assign a flower for you to post a picture of. After that bummer of a day at work I saw that I'd been assigned the poppy.

Fortunately, I had a nice little picture of a California poppy that I took when I was out in San Francisco last Spring. It's not technically perfect, but it is cheerful. After posting it over on FB I decided this joint could use a cheerful flower picture, too.

I present to you the California poppy: