Spring Blooms

OK, I know I've already said it but Berlin really does shine in the Spring.  Even though it went from Winter to Summer overnight temperature and weather-wise we still have all the beauty of Spring time flowers, flowering bushes and trees and various blooms.  I have never, ever seen so many lilac bushes and trees.  They have all different variety of colors and they line the streets so you walk down or bike down and are greeted with such a sweet, sweet scent.  Apparently this year is a unique year and called a "Mast Year" where the spruce trees are producing a significantly higher amount of pollen which you can see in the form of yellow dust EVERYWHERE.

All over our apartment there is a layer of this yellow dust that I'm trying, unsuccessfully,  to stay on top of. Poor Benjamin's allergies have been in full force.  We picked up the Zyrtec equivalent (for 1/5 of the price!) and it seems to keep them in check for the most part.

But the blooms!!  They are everywhere and they are GORGEOUS!  We started with the cherry blossoms and magnolias, then the lilacs and the rhododendrons.  And then all the flowering trees.