Petals!!

We had a glorious beginning to the month of May.  Grandpa Tom and Grandma Pat were here for 10 days.  It was SUCH a fun visit.  The weather is unusually summery and we have been enjoying all the color blooming in our yard.

The trees that anchor the four corners of our driveway bloomed during the last weeks of April and it was an amazing sight to behold.  I could see it a few miles away coming home from town.

 

I thought, "I wonder what will happen when all those petals drop to the ground?"   The answer is this:

and then this: