The Spring Smells of Good Friday

On my walk the flowers from people's gardens were noticeable.

One garden had the emergence of sweet alyssum, its tight bunched petal and habit of reseeding its self make this a wonderful spring to all summer type of flower. The purple variety with the white centers seem to have fallen out of favor or possibly not as readily reseedable in this climate.

This is the time for the start of the iris season. When there are masses of iris, there is also this faintly delicate smell. Of french perfume.

The yellow and orange roses were blooming again on my walk. For some reason these don't have much portable fragrance this time of year.

The strange this that happen this year is that the early iris have come out before the dutch iris. In my head I have always thought that the dutch iris were the first of the iris to come out. The dutch iris are the beautiful ultra marine blue iris with the white and yellow throats. I have one patch in the front yard that I thought was not going to bloom this year.. but alas, it looks like a bunch will bloom as three blossom structures have arisen from the center. As one of the past ministers we had in Turlock used to say... glorious!

I hope you see some beautiful flowers for your Easter parade!
Pat