The Crabapple Tree, Spring 2015
Posted on April 27, 2015 Posted by John Scalzi 29 Comments
Because it’s pretty, that’s why.
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VERY pretty! Thanks :-).
Why yes. Yes it is. Greatly appreciated.
It was such a sad day when the crabapple tree in my back yard stopped blooming. These are some of my favorite flowering trees. Thank you for sharing.
It is a beautiful tree… we had one i our front yard, but it succumbed to bugs and disease a few years ago. Thanks for the pictures!
Lovely… Thank you!
That picture is so vivid I can almost smell the blossoms. Thanks!
Lovely. Makes me wish I wasn’t stuck inside enduring exams. :(
Ahhhh….
Beautiful! I especially love the first picture with the vibrant colors!
John, been following your site for ages, and I think its worth mentioning you have really improved as a photographer. I don’t know if you deliberately practice or anything, but this past year or so has been great.
These pictures are stunning.
I especially like photo 3
You got yourself an outbreak of spring there. Enjoy it while it lasts, for soon the humidity, heat, and bugs of summer will ruin the fun.
*In the voice of Larry Correia, but edited for concision and logic*
“All them flowers on Scalzi’s pictures are pink. Commie librul SJW fascist pink… IT’S A CONSPIRACY TO ROB CONSERVATIVES OF THEIR FLOWER PICTURE HUGO RAIGHTS!”
Also, another Puppy nominee withdraws:
http://aletheakontis.com/2015/04/in-which-edmund-schubert-withdraws-from-the-hugos/
They look too beautiful and realistic.. I think they just set off my allergies again
I would love to have that tree in my backyard
Crabapples; best jam making fruit – EVER! Tart & tasty. Shame so few people make it. John, if your trees have fruit and you need someone to, erm, clean up the yard when the fruit is ripe… Well, I’m up for a field trip.
Beautiful:)
Lovely flowers. It’s a joy seeing them.
I sometimes forget that the rest of the world is already having spring… It was snowing just last week! Thanks for the beautil reminder!!
Reblogged this on Just Cause.
Thank you, the pictures are beautiful.
Reblogged this on Bienvenue sur docjma.
Ultimate Nick is right! And this innocent-looking tree is obviously also part of the vast and ongoing Pineapple Pizza Coverup (PPC)!
Patrickrock:
Thanks. Part of that is a better understanding of how to do post-processing in Photoshop, i.e., how to bring out details in the pictures without making it look “overly ‘shopped.”
Ah, I needed that. Gonna show these pics to everyone in the office. Thanks, John!
Thanks, I love this season of extravagant blossom.
Lovely.
I always find it interesting how spring moves north. Just yesterday I was looking at my grandfather-in-law’s trees, in NE Alabama, and noting how the pears, plum (I think), apples, and peaches had set fruit* and yours, in Ohio, are just blooming. Their irises were still blooming and mine bloomed and faded a few weeks ago (central AL).
Are the flowering trees — especially crabapple but also redbud — especially lovely this spring in the midwest? I’ve been seeing spectacular blooms all around Iowa City.
Lookit all that pink! :)