Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So Dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

-Robert Frost

A magnolia tree at the Huntington Gardens. It’s pretty, but just isn’t the same without the sunlight on the petals. It was an overcast day, but the colors of the petals are still striking.

It is the moment when you leave and you sigh

and you look over your shoulder one more time

and this is what you see.

More flowers at the turn of Spring in the Australian garden at the Huntington Gardens.