While everything is beginning to bud and bloom, I found this one, completely open flower among the bare branches of a near by bush. Talk about an early riser! Birds are shedding some extra pounds, getting ready for warmer weather (as I should be doing). DEER are shedding some extra pounds!!! (Don't know what I'm gonna do with this yet, but it's gonna be something cool). I can't get enough of this tree outside our apartment. So heavenly fragrant and colorful. I just love standing underneath the tree and looking up at the blue sky peeking out behind the various blooms. And I love the SUN peeking out through the various blooms! Just wait til all these open up. Ah, such beauty!