The tulip tree sheds its long, soft, sensuous petals and welcomes spring undressed, making a bed of the ground below it...

What we need is more sunshine this spring, less white precip...

There was a week when the tulip trees shed their lush blossoms, strewing sidewalks with an increasingly slippery pink carpet...

Baby, it's sprngtime, suddenly, as evidenced by this winter jacket thrown over a fence at a playground...

Raise your hand if you're against sprawl. Unruly, unchecked, unregulated growth. It's everywhere, it's stubborn, and it's in our face.

But at this time of year we are reminded of another type of sprawl, just as stubborn and in our face.

Bless its heart.