Jumping Ahead

I am getting ahead of myself a bit with these leaf bursts. I brought some red-osier dogwood stems in to the house to photograph the deepening red stems that occur this time of year. And without thinking much about it, I put the stems in a vase on the fireplace hearth after I was done photographing them. Two days later I woke up to this! While it is delightful to see, and a harbinger of things to come, we are not yet at new-leaf-bud-burst here in the North. But it was too pretty not to share.

red osier dogwood stems in late March (Cornus sericea)