Glorious Springtime Beauty At The Farm

You may be wondering why I am posting about apple blossoms on June 25. First, the north country is several weeks behind most of the rest of the state. Furthermore, I am behind several weeks on my postings. That's partially because I had so very much to post and partially because I have been making my permanent move to the farm and needed blog posts scheduled ahead of time so there was no interruption of updates.

There, now that all of that is explained, let's get back to the apple blossoms. The pears had bloomed the previous week, but the apples were in full blossom on this visit in mid May. Whenever the wind blew (which was nearly always), white petals filled the air like snowflakes:

And the lilacs were in full bloom, filling the air with a heavenly scent. Not bad, huh? The air was filled with the aroma of lilacs and with apple blossom petals. And I had this pastoral view across the road from my house in addition:

Here are the house and barn during lilac season:

I walked through the apple trees and looked back toward the house. We'd had a very rough winter and late spring, but apparently the apples, pears and lilacs found it to their liking:

So I moved up for a closer look at the apple blossoms:

Meanwhile, the dogs luxuriated in the warm sun and mild breezes:

I then moved to the other side of the house for a shot of more lilac blossoms with the north hay field in the background:

I looked back toward the barn:

And if you think this all seems quite heavenly, take a gander at this flowering crab in bloom. They looked just like thousands of rose buds

I don't think I've ever seen such a lovely flower before. I wonder if I can root some more. Well, I'll have to try it - or maybe they'll grow from seed:

Right next to the "rosebud tree" was a clump consisting of both a flowering crab and a yellow delicious apple:

But my little tour of the household flowers was about to come to an end and the dogs were waiting for me. So I put my camera away and continued to do the work I'd planned for the day: