A Bit of Pink

It has rained all day, beginning this morning with a light shower 

and increasing to thunderstorms.

 This evening, I noticed some of the magnolias' petals, new blooms, 

have already become tattered  and fallen from the trees. 

There are now leaves showing in that beautiful shade of light green 

that always speaks of fresh promise.

When the rains have gone, this redbud, which had only shown

a few tiny clusters of buds, will be covered in its own 

fuzzy sweater of tiny pink flowers.