I don’t typically post multiple times a day, but this is important. Today on the way home I saw it. It was there in the woods waiting for me…
The first of many…
Today the first dogwood made it’s appearance in the woods. Spring is officially here.
Carry on.
the eff stop 
Perfect.
Thanks – I think they are the most perfect spring flower…
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Very nice!
A Nice SURPRISE – Beautiful! Have a Great Day:)
You too!
Great to see dogwoods! Mine were so confused by the weather this year that their blooms were only half hearted.
Beautiful pic!
Great to see dogwoods! Mine were so confused by the weather this year that their blooms were only half hearted.
Beautiful pic!
Our red buds are doing the same – I was glad to see the dogwoods came out strong.
Good eye, were you driving when you saw it??
Yep – but I drive up and down that lane everyday. I know where to look 🙂
Still impressive! Maybe along with bird whisperer hawk eye is also a good nick name! 😉
LOL – the white flowers in the woods are pretty easy to find.
So glad that you got this shot. Excellent and striking image.
If a tree blooms in the forest, and there’s no one passing by to record it’s beauty, does it have no purpose?
“There was once a man who said,
‘God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there’s no one about in the Quad’.” ~ Ronald Knox.
Lorri – JTLYN (just to let you know) I often interact with a long time internet friend, also a photographer of note, who shares my propensity for probing the more philosophical aspects of the effect that beautiful or stark;y shocking images have upon us. Most often we do this by adding a more or less relevant quote to our comments. Hope you don’t object to me doing this here on your page. GG
BTW – I also have a propensity for “puns” and don’t necessarily expect a flowery anther to any comments I may make ;^)
🙂
No objection at all here. I think that all blooms have purpose, biological and physical – biology requires them, and philosophical purposes are left to us 🙂 I like to think the purpose is wonder – discovering a clutch of these in the remote woods is a thing of beauty.
Glad I can live spring thru your photo… it’s still hasn’t made it’s presence known here… sigh.
Soon… It has seemed as though winter has drug on and on this year.
I am sooooo jealous! It snowed the last 2 days here and it’s cold. But I love the flower, because I remember how pretty dogwoods are from living in the south. 🙂 so you are forgiven my friend! Carry on! haha!
Awww…love it. Thanks for making me homesick again.
Sorry – I have been looking for days to find one open on the hillside.
I was filing some pics yesterday and found one of the dogwoods behind our house in Bella Vista…..had to go “awwww”…. 😉
Do they not grow in OK? I saw the woods were alive with them this morning.
In shaded areas, yes. But we have no shaded areas, so I can’t plant them. ;(
That is sad – I would miss them too 😦
;(
I love dogwood. My most favorite flowering tree! THE signal of the arrival of spring, no doubt. Lovely capture, Lorri.
Thanks Steph – they are my favorite too. I’m quite sentimental about them. By the weekend the woods will be filled with them.
Pinks too?
No pinks in the woods, but I noticed they are opening in town. The whites are native here.
Oh, I can remember walking in the cool woods as kid when the dogwoods started to bloom. Layers of brown leaves slick underfoot after a spring rain. Clean, crisp air. Fresh, white blooms like little fairies floating in the trees.
That description nails it! My mom used to say they were like angles suspended between heaven and earth.
We are supposed to get rain this afternoon and there is no light that they look better in than in a drizzle. I have a few places where the road is above a hollow and I can shoot down at them. A friend in town told me I’m like the season paparazzi – the first dogwood, the first leaf in the fall – I’m there shooting it 🙂
It should be in your local paper with the headline:
Another Season’s Greetings
🙂
I have never seen one. Lovely~
Thanks – they are like clouds in the woods here in the ozarks.
Gorgeous shot and I’m so glad Spring has finally arrived. It seems there have been many ‘false’ starts over in the US & the UK.
Well, it’s supposed to cool off a bit – but I think spring is moving forward – finally! Thanks!
Exquisite!
Thank you!
very pretty! 🙂
Thanks!
I especially love pink dogwood.
Me too!
Black & White photography. I can take a dose of that every day. Just lovely!
Thanks!