Spring emerges in a shrub on campus

A shrub on campus is showing the signs of spring.

Leaves have come out on crabapples

The leaves have come out on the crabapple trees!

Twigs growing from dead trunk

Next door, there's a trunk that looks dead, but still life grows from it (not the twig coming from the left from the nearby Norway maple, but the twigs on the right).

Flowering red maples

The red maples are really flowering now!

Flowering tree

Until now, I have only seen the silver maples and red maples flowering, but now flowers have come out on another kind of tree!

I am not sure what kind of tree this is.  There are three of them near the JEC Circle, against the building.  They have multiple small trunks (similar in that way to Japanese maple).

Swelling lilac buds

I photographed this lilac in the morning.  I knew it was a lilac because I know the location, I have seen it through the spring and summer. Later that afternoon, I saw a shrub in a less familiar location.  I did not know what it was, but then I realized the buds were the same as the ones I had photographed in the morning, so that one must be a lilac too.

Progress of spring: crabapple and red maple, April 7, 2011

As of April 7, 2011, the crabapples still show last fall's fruit, and do not show much sign of spring.  In another month or so, they will be flowering.

The red maples have opened up a bit more.