Out doing cases today... got to take a piece of Hamilton Road I'd never seen before.
![Hamilton Road](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieTzhyphenhyphenU1ANU16lCpilY_C4-E72OcRQcCaREdmgcAl6CW66un7AodYyioCuPNYQlN780c0WYJ3fe909MmovJXenrDf7WkYnEU9gSuGFsGFDKXVy_1VlXm6dcB8owEeVRLMzXy5_rJL5Bkf-/s1600/road-Hamilton01.jpg)
First I saw huge clumps of flowers off to my right.
![narcissus](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEyDyDfZZEF6FPb3qtp51qo2mn4BJnrCyT9rIiVsXXqahFCTeR-otHV9zGQWwK62oLDxnBqvlpgv-wpO3ORI281RXFEe7Dd4eM9OWQCp7b60VfeqcxI3dHdA7TwQO5nyiED_WD-zlzoS3x/s1600/narcissus01.jpg)
Had to stop and check it out. Surely the location of some former home. Lots of narcissus. Maybe pheasant-eye narcissus, but they should have a tiny red band around the trumpet. Vestiges of one when the photo is enlarged, so perhaps they have just reverted over the years to having no band.
![narcissus](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuZlq6dv4xweEWaPN4IHfzqAcO0Bwqvar_L2MGAqzhanR_g2gRfhL23G3r-IADnW4M_7sIFW3zrtMI6-F2X9Ag68IiMLFM294-djoQSuhfa-IXzC18vFmQusPdVjQYnyoTG6fjsjpF0J9a/s1600/narcissus02.jpg)
Drove a little farther and on the left was a tree with white blossoms too large for shadbush. Of course the layered look gives it away as a dogwood.
![dogwood](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht2i4tAGhh6CYOjMOT8ONACJ-IriaM8Ijg9WaFCmjAPY1UMlQZn9AFDBu550f6E7BlCSzTWh2Y_FPs1q3FgYhyZvEWQpngyft7g6kAPsIl5f4MK7PBPWy09wKBGYOGn0EYa6x9TEEc-Jb0/s1600/dogwood03.jpg)
Most of the flowers were too high to picture, but I captured (literally) one.
![dogwood](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZRzl0Dd5OHyY_QhRHuDw5b9D3CnGWIxbFgLXU-p48RlrTefvgkr3um3tc9HwiQPus9nUXZEWsvoEqm2aSqHhQBGZHoNuINllvhAhvyYO0t2pTbChtflXyKHXJX2O4pbvLqXyAIfZ6nj9/s1600/dogwood04.jpg)
Just rounding the corner onto the next road, and a lovely redbud was blooming in this yard. All redbuds here are ornamental plantings. The wild ones can't make it quite this far north.
![redbud](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBcENfQpvthONknr0b8fkGfXUmWW23w0UyeGwAkAPWWCzDy2Tm8zZsgcshACi5siJmXe4slxND0IJj_zjgUJ_qwUKJApnCEQTa_XpQnBTOeTmwpcZpqFeUDawrm5WktYTW1Stlcdw8VNFi/s1600/redbud01.jpg)
Nice soft rain falling this evening. My flower bed is liking it.
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2 comments:
Nice pix. Especially the first one. I do have a certain fondness for those secondary roads.
I always love this time of year when trees have blossoms on them
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