My Favorite Time of Year + White Lace Dress.

     It's the most wonderful time of the year... all of the flowering trees of the South are in full bloom! There's just no time of year to me as beautiful as this. Fall is nice and all I suppose, but I'd take a blooming tree over fall foliage any day. This weekend, I was supposed to be going up to DC to see their famous cherry blossoms. Unfortunately, the trees up there reached peak bloom a little earlier than normal this year (last weekend), and on Friday there were heavy rains in that area... so I ended up cancelling my day trip as there wouldn't have been that much to see. 😓 Fortunately- I found these beautiful flowering trees here in Charlottesville to still take pictures with!

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      There's just something so magical to me about the season of spring. The fact that there is relief from the coldness and harshness of winter, and seeing things come back to life in nature is just amazing. I also love how the weather is starting to get warm in the spring, but isn't too warm! I could seriously spend hours looking at and photographing all of the beautiful flowering trees. Charlottesville in the spring is home to blooming dogwoods, magnolias, cherry blossoms, flowering crabapples, Bradford Pear and more! Originally I thought these trees that I took today's photos with were cherry blossoms- now I'm thinking they might actually be flowering crabapple? Either way, they're gorgeous, and I'm so glad I still got to see some pretty blooms even with the DC trip cancelled! 

    Normally I'm a stickler on the No White before Easter/after Labor Day fashion rule. This year however, Easter is quite late! So I decided to start wearing my white jeans, dresses, and other summer whites after St. Patrick's Day. Some years Easter does fall the same weekend as that, so it felt appropriate! I love this beautiful white lace dress. It is heavily lined, which is good in that for a light colored dress it's definitely not see-through, but bad in the sense that it would probably be too warm to wear in the height of summer. Definitely more of a spring than summer dress, but I still love it! I think it's very modest for a sundress, and would be great for an Easter service or celebration, or really any Sunday at church in the springtime. 

    I'm looking forward to continuing this month's Tuesday blog post series tomorrow- which is all Travel Guides to Charlotte, NC! I shared the first one last week here.

      God Bless,


     xoxo Annaliese