Spring Break, pt 2

This morning, I hoisted myself out of bed at a rather early hour to make sunrise at Magnuson Park. It's the first time for a while I've been there, maybe even the first this year. (I could look through my pictures to check, but I'm too lazy.)

This might be my favorite of the morning. I think these flowers are serviceberry, but don't quote me on that. The early morning lighting was just perfect.

The theme of the rest of the morning was bigleaf maple trees. They are flowering all over the place and beginning to leaf out. Here is one of emerging leaves:

My pictures of blossoms were not as successful. I'll try again later this week. Here are some of the better ones. The second one would look a lot better, I think, with some lighting adjustments - if the flowers were brighter relative to the whole picture, they would stand out and be stronger in the composition.