I strolled around the house yesterday with my camera, and took some pictures of what is blooming. 13 peony bushes, a shrub rose on steroids, and several volunteer pinks from last year, to name a few. Peonies are wonderful; plant them (not too deep) and they take care of themselves and bloom for years and years.
Pansies always have such cheerful faces, and the yellow ones I got this year are particularly sunny :-)
Flowers always amaze me. Why a device to lure pollinators should be so wondrously beautiful to us seems to me a signature of God.
"...if eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is its own excuse for being..." Ralph Waldo Emerson.