I offer you a symbolic sign of Spring. To produce such a sweet blossom there is the distinct chance of some painful moments, however . . .

This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 1:4 f=150mm lens with a Kowa L39•3C(UV) filter attached to a 21mm extension tube using Kodak Portra 160 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized with Photoshop.