blooming ovenbird Today: daffodils, Spanish bluebells, the first of the cherry blossoms, ink entering water. 260309 ... ovenbird Yellow fronds of forsythia, bearing the name of a Scottish botanist. Such a pretty name. Such a violent claiming. 260311 ... ovenbird Magnolias have shed their winter coats and their flowers dance naked in the rain. 260319 ... ovenbird Tulips. Was there ever a flower more emblematic of spring? Or one so blatantly horny? 260320 ... ovenbird Grape hyacinths, flowers held on a proud raceme, curved tepals tipped with teeth that ache when they bite into the first ice_cream cone of spring. 260321 ... ovenbird Primula. Purple against the green of thrusting leaves. 260331 what's it to you? who go blather from