#DCspring

Well, dear readers, if you blink you may miss it: our gorgeous DC spring, which showed up late this year, is already making way for hot and muggy DC summer.  Don't believe me?  See for yourself...

The area is still absolutely gorgeous, though the weather is getting gross, and every time I take Charlie out for a walk I am amazed by all the flowers in my new neighborhood.  Glorious wild rose bushes abound, the peonies bloomed last week, the irises are only now on their last legs, and many dogwoods are still in full flower.  I'm tempted to take gardening shears with me whenever I leave the house!  (Okay, I have - three times - but I just clipped some roses from way back in the grounds of an apartment building near me, where they wouldn't be missed, and I actually paid a neighbor for a few of the peonies from her garden!)  I know I Instagram the [expletive] out of spring in DC, but I thought I'd share some of my favorites from April 1 through today, both seen and not yet seen online, before the season is gone for the year.  Enjoy!