Picture post the first: end of April/early May

I was a little worried about the magnolia given all the freeze-thaw fakeouts we got before spring finally decided to arrive, but as it turned out it bloomed spectacularly this year.  Behold:

Full landscape, for the record.  Should totally have gotten a picture of the crocuses that bloomed a week or two earlier, but I don't think a picture really does justice to how uplifting they were anyway.