Cloudy, With Intermittent Green

This is one of my favorite color combinations -- purple-grey clouds and and yellow-green foliage.

And it's only in Spring that the trees display this particular tender, light-filled shade of green.

The sky was extra dramatic yesterday, after Tuesday's rain, tempting me

to pull over and take pictures as I drove to Burnsville for my class.

Just as tempting was a mass of mayapples,

growing on the bank of the road up to our house. . . 

and the tree peony's first bloom, greeting me as I got out of the car.