**Image via Pinterest; text added by Natalie

**Image via Pinterest; text added by Natalie

For months the branches of my redbud tree have been stark and bare. Day after day in the gloom and cold of winter, it stood silently waiting for a miracle to bring life back unto it, first in the form of its tiny red buds to be followed soon thereafter by the music of its many leaves. And now the miraculousness of springtime has begun!

**Photo taken in her yard by Natalie; text added by Natalie

**Image via Pinterest; text added by Natalie