May 19

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You may recall that on May 13 I talked about petal paper in West Park.  (Scroll all the way down to the bottom of that post, if you click through.)

Tons of crab apple petals on the paved path, and some combination of rain and foot traffic mashed the petals into cohesive paper-like sheets.

They are really hard to get closeups of, as they are not very flat.  Petals stick up, and the whole sheet is pretty wavy/up-and-down-y.

I think they are cool..........

The neighborhood tree peonies were in bloom, on the 19th.

And the spirea are getting closer to blooming.

Verbena?

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