Magnolia season is fleeting.
This morning I took pictures of the early magnolias blossoming on the trees. I do this every year. As one of the first flowers of spring it is irresistible to me to take pictures. I liked my pictures as they were today, but I messed with them anyway. So these are altered, but also the same. The same blue sky, breaking buds, the same flowers in the background like stars in the day.
That's what new magnolias feel like to me:
Daytime stars.
I wanted to show you these pictures right in the heart of the season. I am at work now and look out the window on the same day I took and made these pictures, and it looks like Winter out there. But nevertheless I saw this tree today, full of magnolias. We are on the edge of a wonderful explosion! But I have been making so many things to show you lately that my magnolias have to get in that long line. When you see this almost a week will have passed. So if you're in Saint Minneapolis this all is last week's news. The magnolias are ripe and even rotting on the branch.
But hurry outside.
New wonderful things are coming!
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