Spring has come to the lower elevations of the Blue Ridge mountains. Higher up in the mountains the temperature was 28(F), there was several inches of snow left over from this past weekend, and it was snowing today at noon. Spring is several weeks away at the 4000 foot level.
This is a interesting time to visit Skyline Drive. You can traverse over 1/2 mile in elevation change in a one hour drive. At the lower end it's spring and at the upper it's still winter. You can fast forward from winter to spring just by starting high and heading low - a complete change of seasons in an hour.
Here we have dogwoods, redbuds across the drive, and new leaves everywhere.