Shore Lines a Virginia Beach Blog

Spring came early to Virginia Beach this year, long before the official first day. And that means beach weather is not far behind! It also means that just about anywhere in Virginia Beach is a good place for a walk as Mother Nature puts her glorious powers on display. Everywhere I look, flowers are bursting into bloom, and pale green and yellow leaves are breaking out on trees. Neighborhood gardens, street medians, and city parks are exploding with color. The Bradford pear trees with their white blossoms are spectacular. Yellow forsythia bushes and purple irises and beds of lilac-colored phlox have begun their annual displays. Thousands of yellow and white daffodils are blooming, thanks in part to a grass-roots campaign a few years ago to plant an abundance of bulbs. Around the city, and especially at Red Wing Park, the cherry blossom trees are ethereal with their frilly pink flowers. And the dogwood trees have begun to push out petals. I even have a magenta azalea bush blooming in a sunny corner of my yard. Whenever I take a walk around my neighborhood at this time of year, I like to make an inventory of all the flowers I see, and that often spurs me to walk a few more blocks. Look, there! A tulip, opening its pink petals to the world. Pick any neighborhood or park. With temperatures in the seventies, there’s simply no better weather for walking. And in the midst of Virginia Beach’s springtime parade of flowers, there’s simply no more beautiful place.