Bitty Buds Haiku

The buds are back! I love a budding tree or shrub. These new bitty beginnings are beautiful because the tree or shrub looks like a web of lace or a delicately bejeweled or bedazzled decoration. The tree is in between bare and leafed, and color and vivacity are returning! 

So, we are at the beginning of bud season at Spring Bird. I’m appreciating these bright yellow green ones belonging to a tree that I can’t identify. They are always first to bud. Then there are the ruddy red scrambled buds of the maples, and now the perfect purple of the redbuds are just beginning. And while there aren’t any at Spring Bird, can anything beat a budding weeping willow? It’s like curtains of buds! 

Anyway, enough of me gushing.

Here is a haiku that I shared on April’s Woolgathering Podcast:

buds, bees, bluebells reign

fox screams trillium thunder

April empties eggs

Enjoy your buds!