Look at the difference in these beautiful trees at Veteran’s Oasis Park in Chandler, Arizona taken about 20 days apart this spring! Leafy green branches (in the top photos) last week and flowering light pink blossoms just a few weeks ago (in the images below.) I think maybe these are apple trees, because they have little green fruit on them. But I will go back in a few weeks to see for sure. Maybe they are peaches?
The top photos are of my toddler nephew Jonathan hunting for Easter eggs and looking super cute doing it. After the egg hunt, we headed up the little hill to the bubbling oasis the park must be named for - the litlle creek that sends water to the lakes in the park. This park is gorgeous and pretty unique for the Valley of the Sun - I highly recommend visiting it if you feel like you need a dose of nature. Jonathan loves wading in the creek and I know we will be going back there this summer so he can play in the water (much closer and easier than driving to the Salt River.)
The photos below are Kelly and her triplet toddlers amongst the flowering blossoms of these gorgeous trees! Oh how I loved how these photos turned out for Kelly and her little kids! We really lucked out with the light layer of clouds blocking out the sun in the middle of the day and with these trees being in bloom. The light we had was pretty dreamy and rare! When we first got to the blossoming trees, the clouds were not covering the sun and I was wishing badly that I could have been there in the early evening with this little trio and their mom and grandmother. And then the BEST thing happened! Light clouds moved to block the sun and we got the perfect filtered light of my dreams!
The triplets’ grandmother started blowing bubbles for them - scroll down to see how they all wanted to start climbing up the hill to get to her and the bubbles. And then their mom Kelly started blowing bubbles for them. One of my FAVE photos that I have ever taken is the photo of the bubble magnifying the desert globemallow (a.k.a. apricot mallow) flowers. Scroll down and check them out!
This photo shoot of the triplets makes me want to do two things: 1. More photo shoots with babies and bubbles. And 2. Go take more photos of desert flowers magnified by bubbles.
I think I will do both!
