Azaleas!

It should be an uplifting time of the year here in South Carolina’s Lowcountry with winter giving way to spring this week. But there’s a certain bleakness to life today as America shuts down in unprecedented ways so coronavirus won’t claim lives on an epic scale.

So the beauty in our yard right now provides a bright and colorful contrast to the daily drab and troubling news of this worldwide pandemic.

The only bad thing about azaleas is that their blooms do not last long. So we all must enjoy them while we can!

Southern Living magazine calls azaleas "the number one must-have plant in the South." Well, we've got a bunch of them in different colors so that makes me happy and proud.

I cannot take credit for having a green thumb in successfully planting and cultivating these azalea plants and shrubs.  We inherited most of them when we bought our house in 1995.

So, wow, we've been enjoying these bright blooms for 25 years now!

 Below: In the background a golfer tees off. We live on the golf course at Coosaw Country Club.

PicCollage is a great phone app for creating images like the above.  And it's free!