On warm sunny days (rare), you can smell Spring in the air, but most of the deciduous trees in the park are still resolutely bare. So this one, a horse chestnut I think, has been standing out for the last couple of weeks. When Wednesday morning was bright and sunny and for once this month I didn't need to leave the house kitted out in rain gear, I left home a few minutes early and stopped to take a couple of photos while it's still ahead of all the rest.
I didn't get even one St. Patrick's Day card made and mailed this year, a couple of e-cards is as good as it got. But this is close enough...
We've had very mixed weather so far - a couple of days when it was mild enough to wear fingerless gloves, a couple of dustings of snow and sleet, and a lot of wind and rain. I spotted this tree on the way home from work on Tuesday, and I think it must have fallen in the course of the morning, be ause I'm fairly sure I'd have noticed it in the way in - I'm usually looking over at that side because that's where the deer are.
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