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</div><p id="194b">In the early spring, you find flowers everywhere, in the ground and in trees as featured here.</p><p id="1657">This is in the gardens of the castle at La Sarraz:</p><figure id="2154"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*qy9bfJcpFZz7ARvJcFiA9A.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="34b9"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*lJWAedtO_1P_gJnuuDFUbw.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="c7e0">These yellow-flowering trees are very common all around. Here’s this one for example, in Croy, along a man-made water stream that diverts part of the water of a nearby river to a local mill:</p><figure id="2a70"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*l4sHqqei17fzz-ZjJNQ_Xw.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="1435">Also in Croy, I found this small tree/bush with very nice white flowers:</p><figure id="ea8e"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*v4vUnvrXvzxtMim3Bl9pYg.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="b3f0">And in Romainmotier, right next to the monastery, this tree bloomed some hairy flowers:</p><figure id="f340"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*v_JiNDEWQpFAS-bGbR0vsQ.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="da77"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*VNLnkCgKvFHOGBHnyH7Z5w.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><h1 id="4c0d">Down in the towns near the shores of Lac Leman</h1><p id="bcdb">With hues spaning white to pink, magnolias, cherries, and other flowering trees already vest colors before the fresh green foliage arrives:</p><figure id="1553"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*Opm-gFlGnrrBaTOO"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="6ffb"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*NpWaFQIgvaRWNC-7"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="049b"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*Te7FPe5LzXD0gRyu"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="c4a9">This one is in a messy edge of a forest near home:</p><figure id="4378"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*AHwgeWsQIupDRNos"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="afec">Let’s take a closer look at the flowers…</p><figure id="903d"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*G0prqjmUeBsA_6rT"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="eccb">And last, this one, I don’t get it. Did I arrive late and the flowers are dying off?</p><figure id="5dce"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*dabMvufYe0nX4cSp"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><h1 id="ec5f">Want more spring stories?</h1><div id="6ead" class="link-block">
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<div><h3>Its name is Anemonoides nemorosa. It is now everywhere:</h3></div>
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<div><h3>Without any doubt, the highlight of this week was the snow, especially after two months of sunny, barely cold winter.</h3></div>
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<h2>So many species of wildflowers coexisting as the spring begins!</h2>
<div><h3>Pass and see some commented shots of each.</h3></div>
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<h2>Ready, steady, … flowers!</h2>
<div><h3>All around, buds are ready to burst. I focus here on flower buds. Learn about the pigments that confer flowers their…</h3></div>
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<div><h3>I’m a fan of “power plants", by which I don’t mean electrical power plants but mother nature’s creatures that paint…</h3></div>
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