Flowers in April

I think it's amazing that flowers can bloom so splendidly just growing out of a stone wall.

I'm going to take the camera home tonight so I can get y'all some pics of the Italian countryside from the train coming into Rome. The wheat fields are blooming and the grass is tall, and the carciofi are being harvested and showing up by the bushel-full in all the markets.

All this says summer to my Canadian brain.

So, how's mid-April where you are?