Blossoms Monochrome Monday

Flowers on trees, one of my favorite things! The advent of the middle of springtime brings on all kinds of great flowers. There are plenty of early-bird flowers on some of the trees but these are actual fruit trees, so they come in a little bit later in the year which is great, and works out fine for me!

The little man and I were on an adventure, one of our frequent things on a weekly basis, and I wanted to make sure that we checked out the apple tree blossoms at one of our favorite farms, so we did just that! I really loved seeing it because I haven't been able to look at these types of things in the last few years, because I've been working a fair bit and end up just missing it. I made sure to not miss it this year!

To start though, we've got a picture of blueberry blossoms actually. This was a really cool thing to see because I don't know if I've seen what blueberries precursor blossom looks like before. It looks like a little bell, to be honest! I loved seeing them haha.

We also saw one of the other popular fruits that the farm offered: peaches! Peach blossoms are a really great thing but I was surprised they were pretty nondescript in the grand scheme of things. I was expecting something a little more elaborate but nope! The peach blossoms here are pretty simple, a few hairs and a little bit of fruity nectar to it. Sadly that also means that they didn't smell wonderful.

The thing I love about some blossoms like the apple blossoms is that they have a really strong smell to them! I love walking by a tree and getting to experience their wonderful aroma, it is really something special. I don't think I ever really appreciated these things as much as a kid but I am definitely making time to do that as an adult!

We took quite a large number of photos during our walk.. but I randomly selected a few which I shared and converted to black and white for the folks on Hive. This one here was an interesting one of the apple blossoms. The beginning of the trail that we were walking on was right next to the road that leads up to the back of the farm which is nice however it's quite busy in the busy apple season! We've been coming to this particular farm for many years now and the great part about it is that it's always busy. Coming at an off-season like this, and even when the weather is pretty crummy has made it a bit more of an enjoyable experience! We got to walk all over the place as we pleased and didn't encounter a single soul when we were out there.

Getting to indulge ourselves in the aroma and look of all the apple blossoms was a great thing for sure! I am really glad that I brought my good phone with me instead of my normal phone which I use for day-to-day stuff. The work phone, that I often leave at home, is a higher model and has a much better camera for things like this! It was just simply phone photos with a little touch up in the GIMP open-source photo editing software and bam, we get these beauties!