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Pre-bloom white dogwood surrounded by snow. Close up of 3 flowers in different states of opening their bracts. The lower flower is still growing its bracts, making the short and still green. The middle flower is in full display of the camera, showing its buds and 4 pale bracts with slight browning at the tips. The top flower is in an inbetween state of the previous 2, it's bracts are still white but look as if they're opening up.
The sky is gray overcast from it currently snowing. The rest of the trees are seen in the mid ground and all along the mid and back ground is snow covering the pinestraw all around. The flowers look yellow against the white of the snow.
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The close-up flowers are blurry, but you can see the background much better. The snow barely conceals the fallen dogwood leaves and pine straw all around. It almost looks like the floor is made of brown static. Tall pine trees are still green against the pale gray sky in the background.
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My favorite of these pics. The flower's pale yellow bracts have a blush of pink along their sides, slightly contrasting the buds the surround. Beneath it is a green leaf struggling to open and catch what sunlight there is. Beneath that still is a dead flower that froze because of the small froze droplet on it, turning it dark brown.
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The whole dogwood tree in its full splendor. Showing winter giving way to an early spring. Unfortunately, I don't think the flowers had enough time to develop as I remember they stayed small on the trees.
Old pic of blooming dogwood in the snow. March 2017
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