Thursday, March 22, 2012

Spring on the Medford Campus

Today Ralph Berglund posted a number of beautiful photographs of the Medford Campus on his photo journal. 
http://bergiesplace.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/springs-blouse-slips-alluringly-off-of-her-shoulder/


These photos and the text have been copied from the post linked above.   The title of Ralph's post is
Spring's blouse slips alluringly off of her shoulder. 

"Of course I’m writing about spring flowers gradually appearing.   Whatever were you thinking? 
As I raised the blinds yesterday morning this  tree called to me in the slight fog.  Where did all of those white blossoms come from so suddenly?

Then, on the adjacent trail I came across this night’s work showing the effects of the fog.  It looks as though all that work yielded only a few bits of wet chaff.   






Elsewhere on the campus there are lots of splashes of naturalized Narcissi which please the eye and anchor other pleasant woodland scenes. 









































Not much farther afield was this lovely tree, its blossoms so pretty and so short-lived.  I’ve always known these as Tulip trees but our arboretum sign calls them Magnolias.  Indeed, they’re closer to Magnolias than to the Lily (tulips) family.









































A few days earlier I interrupted these two taking in a morning on the south branch of the Rancocas. 



Yes, clearly spring is movin’ in and isn’t that a nice thing to know each morning? 

























































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