Spring-Time Flowers

It's been a roller coaster couple of months in New England. After feeling very sure that the snow was all over, today we just had the coldest April 15th in recorded history, with an occasional snow flurry or "snizel" (i.e a combination of snow and drizzle).

The high temperature was surprisingly at midnight, which was 38 degrees at our house, and the temperatures fell all day.  As I write this at 8pm, it is 32 degrees.  Boston reported windchill near 20 degrees.  

Tomorrow is the Boston Marathon.  It will be windy (15-40 mph) and rainy, with temperatures in the mid-30s when the race starts and perhaps low 40s by mid-afternoon. I see an 80-100% chance of rain for every hour from 8am to 2pm.  

All that yuckiness aside, I spent a warm and wonderful two hours outside at the botanic garden two days ago.  Many of the outside areas were roped off because they were undergoing maintenance (and looked very muddy), which I guess should be expected after the heavy (and just recently melted) snow this winter.  Nevertheless, I did take some pleasing photos of a few of the spring-flowering bulbs.

Below is a selection.  

Gear: The first image, that of a "snowdrop", was taken with my Panasonic GX80/85 and 60mm Olympus macro lens.  The rest are all crocuses of various colors and the photos were taken with my Olympus E-M1 and Olympus 12-100mm zoom lens.