walking to work on May 5

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On May 5 the plan was that I would be dropped at the post office so I could go to the library (no place to stop right in front of the library; the post office is across the street and has its own parking, unlike the library where you have to take a ticket from the machine in a paid lot -- though you don't have to pay if you stay less than 10 min).

But they were cutting up 5th Ave with those street cutting saws, so I jumped out at a red light at Washington, and let the car&driver evade the bottleneck caused by the saws.

The crabapples were at perfection.

I took several shots of this little cluster of flowers, and couldn't decide which I liked better, so you get to see them all. Usually when I'm cropping it's obvious what to cut out to leave the heart of the matter, but with these, every time I went to cut them down, I would have had to leave out something I liked. A nice leaf, some interesting naughty bits, the bokeh, a shadow..............









The 5th was a gorgeous day; that blue is the sky..........





This is one of the red-leafed redbuds in the enormous planter in front of the library. In the background you can see the parking structure reflected in the front windows of the library.





It was sort of an urban kind of day. Sawing up the road, just down the street, and I don't know what they were doing here.........





I have never noticed as many barberry flowers as I am seeing this year. They are especially noticeable against this maroon foliage. These are teensy. Half a centimeter, maybe.





Barberry is very spiky; I wouldn't grow it. Note thorn coming in from the top.





I am trying to remind myself to pay attention, as I walk, to what I can smell. One doesn't need to stick one's nose right into the lilacs to enjoy their scent.....







Euphorbia.



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