Sprung

 

Despite today's expected rain and cool temperatures might suggest, spring has sprung. Redbuds and buttercups never lie. :-)

Magic

 

The tulips here are beginning to fade, slowly giving way to other flowering plants like irises, wisteria, azaleas, and camelias. Always, to my mind at least, a magical time of year.

Open Carriage

 

Beautiful day for an open carriage ride AND another link to Skywatch Friday.

Wisteria

Polychromatic

Bokeh

Aluminum

 

 

 

This was my first introduction to aluminum bells (above). As was explained during the concert, they were chosen for two reasons: 1) they're lighter than their bronze equivalents, and 2) they have what the choir director called a more "fundamental" tone, by which I think he meant that they generate fewer overtones that tend to overwhelm the sound from the smaller bells.