Buds are Breaking

We are at the start of a dramatic transformation of the Salt Lake Valley as the "urban forest" that covers much of the Salt Lake Valley undergoes leaf out.

The urban forest is especially dense over the older neighborhoods of the northeast Salt Lake Valley, including the Avenues, Sugarhouse, Mill Creek, and environs.  This morning, that forest still looks brown as most trees are just beginning to bud. 

The view will, however, change dramatically in the next two weeks as buds break and the trees sprout leaves.  Signs of spring are definitely evident.  One example is that my apricot tree is beginning to bloom.

Take a few moments to enjoy the clear skies, gaze at an early season bloom, inhale the clean air, and ponder the words of Alexander Pope:

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast;

Man never Is, but always To be blest.

The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,

Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”