Petals and Puddles

Last weekend, we had nothing but rain and wind and more rain.  The next day as I walked through the park, I found two things. I found flower petals from the trees on the ground everywhere I looked.  I also found puddles.  It was kind of sad that so many of the petals from the flowering trees were knocked down so quickly after they appeared, but it was inevitable.


After the rain, a carpet of pink petals had been spread out underneath the crabapple trees.

The rain came down so fast that it took a while for it to drain off and soak into the ground.  It was standing in a big puddle above the underground drain in the park.

There was another big puddle behind one of the baseball fields underneath some pine trees.

Everywhere I looked there were petals on the ground.  Pink and white ones were spread like confetti over the parking lots.

Yellow ones were spread out underneath the forsythia bushes too.

More pink petals lined the street along the curb

and were littered over the sidewalks too.

I did find some trees that still had blooms on them.  I found these white tinged in pink ones.  

This tree had a bird's nest in it.  Sweet location for a home in the midst of all those flowers, don't you think?  As they say in the real estate business, "Location!  Location!  Location!"

I saw this pretty tree in the neighborhood on the way home that was still holding onto its blooms too.  I liked the way it was framed by the black and brown lines of the corner fence on the left and tree trunk and branch to the right of it too.

Happy Sunday to you all!