04/11/25

 It's Friday, TGIF!  The Redbuds are in bloom and have made the area quite lovely.  The buds are red but the blooms are more pink.  I captured this image in late afternoon and it had some lovely bubbly bokeh in it.  Sharing it today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!

4/26/23

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  Today's flower is the Redbud.  These are the flowers from our native trees which are very prolific in our area.  It's beautiful in the spring when they are all in bloom on the hillsides and yards.  Unfortunately, they are basically done blooming already.  I wish they lasted longer.  They did last about 2 weeks though.

4/26/19

The Redbuds have really been pretty this year.  Last year they got a bit frozen out and didn't bloom well.  I shared a shot early of what the buds look like and today is how they look while blooming.  I loved the bokeh in this image and Fridays are still Bokehlicious to me.

4/23/19

Spring has really sprung lately in my area.  The Redbuds and Lilacs are blooming like crazy making everything quite colorful.  This is a 2 image panorama out on the western side of my property.  Redbuds start on the left and flow into the Lilacs.

4/18/19

So all the rain missed us.  I hope this is not a sign of things to come.  Last summer was quite dry.  At least we had a fairly wet winter to help things out where we didn't last year.  The Redbud Trees are really blooming right now and it looks lovely around town.  Last year they got a bit frozen and never fully bloomed out.  This is a focus stack macro of the buds and shows basically how they get their name though I think they are more pink than red.  😃

4/4/17

The Redbuds are in bloom, in fact probably mostly done now especially with the rain.  This area of Kansas with the Flint Hills and then these trees blooming and given them and the pasture lands color is a quite lovely sight in Kansas in Spring.  I thought this one of the neighbor's was rather nicely formed as opposed to mine which are up against Cedar Trees so only have branched out on one side.  When they are in fill bloom, like in this image, they appear more pink but the closed buds are more red.

4/19/16

This is an image of a Redbud Tree in my yard.  These trees seem to almost grow like weeds in our area of Kansas but I planted this one on purpose.  It is not in danger due to the road construction because I did not pay attention to if it was totally on our land because at the time we were in the county and basically country and who knew there would be all kinds of development around us.  That's a long and painful story.  Anyway, this is it in full bloom this past week.