OH leiladylei54, the flowers in Hawaii are so gorgeous. After visiting there, I was so taken with the beautiful trumpet flowers in Maui and managed to find two for my yard. They're small tree-sized-- one gold and one a sun-kissed pink. I thought I had lost them in one of our freezes, but both are coming out from roots. I find beautiful plants everywhere, even in the desert.
Fran, I'm glad you visited in the early spring. Then you seen the wildflowers at their best. I don't have Bradford pears but I love seeing them in bloom. Sometimes we get so used to seeing nature that we forget to really LOOK at it!