Spring is making its presence known. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Variety of flowers from spring bulbs, sent by Cheryl Battle of Bavon.

The forsythia is in full bloom at the home of Ginger Rowe in Gloucester.

Daffodils in bloom at Ark Park, spotted by Linda Tjossem.

Spring surrounds Patti Procopi in Gloucester, who photographed camellias in bloom and the first egret of the year on Cedar Bush Creek.

Pat Rawls of Foster showed the landscaping at Faith Baptist Church, Mathews, with thanks to Brent & Becky’s Bulbs for “adding freely to our community, loveliness for all to enjoy.”

Louise Witherspoon of Port Haywood sends photos of dead nettle, which is alive, and casting a purple haze now over fields and lawns; speedwell, a common weed with tiny blue flowers; and variegated vinca, an invasive vine with spring flowers.

Two camellia japonicas from Judy Moughon of Mathews, along with helleborus and...