Normally I’d consider it redundant to post on a topic someone else has already covered, but I feel I must mark the passing of time by sharing photos of our glorious catalpa trees. There’s something stunning and unexpected about our “wedding” trees. They are fairly ordinary and commonplace (albeit to the untrained eye, not you, Christina!) during most of the year, except for late spring/early summer when they develop white blossoms, which eventually fall beautifully on our lawns. When I walked out front to snap pictures today, the flowers looked like snowflakes, gently falling in the midday breeze, blanketing the green grass.

It is trees like catalpas, not to mention the numerous perennials and annuals planted in our gardens, that make this season, the spring season, my absolute favorite.