The honey locusts are leafing out.
This leaf can't decide if it wants to be pinnately or bipinnately compound.
The flowers buds are growing on the honey locusts...
while the black locusts (Robinia pseudoacacia) have already bloomed.
The flowers look like pea flowers (locusts are in the same family as the pea) and smell just as delicately sweet. 
All the black locusts I've seen are still young, which means about another 100 years of sweet pink blossoms. Thanks, Art!
Halesia tetraptera (Halesia carolina) is native to the eastern United States. It's in the Storax family (along with the Japanese Snowbell).
This small ornamental tree drips these charming white pendulous flowers in the spring.
Here's a view from underneath.
It is just starting to leaf out. Four-winged fruit will develop as the summer progresses...
Although the single-flower cherries have been long done, the double-flower cherries are still going.
Petals are dropping...
but the canopies are still full of pink.
Not only does it have two different habits, it has different flowering times and different flower colors. The weeping part bloomed first with pink flowers, and the rootstock sports bloomed afterward with white flowers.
-Okame cherry-
-yoshino cherry-
-yoshino leaves in fall-
-a weeping cherry in winter...
and in spring-
Near a sweet gum tree, the entire surface of the ground is covered with decaying sweet gum balls that settled in a perfect blanket in the dirt. I'm not sure when this blanket was formed: maybe last fall, maybe the year before. 
The freshly fallen sweet gum balls are still on the surface of the ground - not embedded like the old ones - and are more reddish-brown.
These buds have been getting bigger over the past couple of weeks, shedding layers in the process.
Last week I saw a handful of buds like this on each tree.
Now there are too many to count. Some buds even have little hairy leaves peeking out.
Foliage doesn't usually emerge until after full bloom, but the occasional renegade adds a refreshing bit of green to all the fuschia.
The autumn cherries are in bloom. I had seen one a couple weeks ago in premature bloom, but freezing temperatures put a halt to that. Now all of the autumn cherries are blooming (safely, I hope).
The silver and red maples beat them to it, though. Both of these species have been in bloom for at least ten days. 
Red maples have different male and female trees while silver maples are monoecious. These silver maple flowers have long stamens topped with pollen-releasing anthers that bees are already busy exploring.
An early bloom that particularly caught my eye was the snowdrop. I had never seen these before (maybe because I'm from Virginia). I always thought of daffodils and crocuses when it came to spring flowers, but the snowdrop is such a little delight. 
There are patches of these all over Green-Wood.
On Wednesday, crews were cleaning up some of the major damage from last weekend's storm. Here, a member of the grounds crew had just cut up a Norway maple that fell.
It had toppled the marble column of a family monument. 
Damage can be seen all over.
With the losses from the snow storms earlier this year, Green-Wood has taken quite a hit in 2010.
The saddest for me was seeing this willow. I turned the corner and saw the roots up in the air. 
What a big loss for this little pond! Green-Wood Cemetery is accepting donations for replanting and restoring the cemetery.
-a pear snapped in half-
