You will recall how much I love linden trees.
Bees love them, too.
They smell so good.
The flowers are very small, and not very showy.
It wasn't until I got the digital camera with the macro focus that I could see all the interesting things about them. The pointy buds. The fuzzy base of the pistil.
See the teensy bug on top of the lowest bud?
Goodness. Look what the euphorbia is doing.
Only a few of all those flowers are setting seed. (A tighter crop of the above, not a new image.)
The enormous planter in front of the library. With its excellent red-leafed redbuds.
The leaves are a dark wine red when they open, and turn green as they age. You'll recall all the colors found in them late last fall after they were on the ground.....
I don't think hydrangea die back each year (or maybe some do?), but this last winter seems to have been hard on the ones in this planter. Here is the one near the front door that I photographed so many time last summer.
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