Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Dreaming of magnolias




Pittsburgh's magnolias are nowhere near close to bloom... but I am already starting to fantasize... maybe three weeks from now? Here is one magnolia whose buds I captured for posterity a year ago... it's on the way to work... I nearly drove off the road when I saw it. Please ignore the yewball right beside it. I would like to hurl a Molotov cocktail at these horrible foundation plantings... they're magnets for bugs and mice and peeing dogs... and ugly to boot. But oh, those magnolias!!!!

3 comments:

farmgirl said...

If that hedge disappears in the middle of the night , we are going to know who took it.

Pamela Terry and Edward said...

Oh my soul. Exquisite.

Windlost said...

Gorgeous. We don't have magnolias here but did where I lived in Toronto - the trees are just astounding with those giant flowers, aren't they!?