Spring is almost sprung

OK, so P and I had lunch at On the Border today, and we noticed there weren't many people eating at the restaurant with us. I thought maybe it was because it was kind of early, but P pointed out that it might be because people were all at cookouts. Were you all at cookouts? I think it's kinda early for a cookout, and said so. He said "Well, it's kind of the beginning of summer" and I guess (calendar dates to the contrary) it really is. I mean, all the resort/summer rental places pump their prices up starting this weekend, right?

But this year seems to be flying by! This winter was horribly long, but in some ways winter always feels like the dregs of the previous year. And now we're almost at summer? So I thought I'd better get off my butt and post some of my spring pictures before it's completely gone.

I took a drive recently and became obsessed with pretty trees. Thankfully I had my pocket camera with me. ( Behind the cut for size. )

And another thing...

Less pretty than my previous post (but certainly interesting), a compare and contrast. Here's the forsythia tree in my driveway May 1, 2007:

( again behind a cut )