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Eliza Waters 
I can smell the vitamin D Eliza, sunshine everywhere 🤗❤️🙏
😀 Thanks, Mark
Pretty shot with the rim lighting on the buds, Eliza. 🙂
Thank you, Jane. The light was perfect, glad I had my camera along. 🙂
Gold and silver!
Oh, yes, perfect description! Thanks, Audrey. 🙂
So fresh.
Thank you, Rupali!
Delightful
Merci!
They look so magical in this light Eliza! 🤍✨️ xxx
Thank you, Xenia. Backlighting can be so lovely. 🙂
Love that light❣️
Thank you, Val. It was perfect timing. 🙂
🤩🤩🤩🤩🙌🏼 lovely to see these! They grew around my childhood home.
Thanks, Susan. They are a pretty shrub. Everything from birds to bears love the fruit.
The backlighting is glorious! I didn’t think I’d encountered these, and according to this, I probably haven’t: “Prunus virginiana (chokecherry) is native to nearly all of Canada and the United States (excluding the deep Southeast).” We have P. umbellata, the flatwoods plum, which is limited to east Texas. Haven’t seen that one, either!
Thank you, Linda. Apparently, they can host a deadly disease that kills peach, cherry and plum, so they are removed within 500 feet of commercial trees. Since I have none of those, I don’t have to worry about that. The birds are grateful, I imagine. They love the fruit.
I’m glad both you and your birds can continue enjoying them!
Spring is here.
So exciting it is!
I am having problems finding what I want at nurseries, as they told me I am still too early for some plants. Need to get used to the timing of the seasons.
A good guideline is annuals can be planted when the night temps are 55º or higher. Perennials anytime after the soil can be worked.
Thanks!
Have you ever made jam or tasted it? I haven’t.
No, as they are very tart, they would need A LOT of sweetening. I leave them to the birds.
Such beautiful light!
Thank you, Laurie!
Love the backlighting, nice capture, Eliza!
Thank you, Barbara. The timing was perfect. 🙂
Now I miss my chokecherry tree that was outside my old bedroom window. What a pretty photo!
Thank you, Dale. It’s a pretty shrub. Wildlife love the cherries and they don’t last long.
It is. Mine was more like a small tree
w-o-w !!!! so beautiful and filled with the hope of spring!
thank you so much
Thank you! The light was lovely.
Pretty light! The buds remind me a little of pussy willows – are they fuzzy at all?
Thanks, K. There is a bit of fuzz to them, but not as tactile as pussy willows. The clustered flowers are tiny, five-petalled and white.
Pretty against that background!
Thank you, Belinda!
What a beautiful image, Eliza.
Thank you, Monika!
We had a late April snow and freeze that spoiled our crab apple blossoms and columbine buds. The bears love the chokeberries so I hope they survive for their sake!
How disappointing for you. We had a similar warm-up followed by a freeze, catching many tender buds, but thankfully, enough escaped major harm.
A splash of sunshine!
Yes, the light was just right when I happened to pass by.
A promise!
Yes! 🙂 Thanks, Maria.
I find it strange that cherries (and choke-cherries) are in the genus Prunus, which in turn is in the rose family.
They look a bit like little 5-petalled roses