I love these spring flowers! (Daffodils are out of focus in the background!)

anyone looking for a solid read i highly recommend "how to read a tree"-tristan gooley it goes beyond an id guide and instead focuses on the macro structure of trees and the forest. i have been utilizing while taking my daily snow walk in the woods and it has been very beneficial in expanding my knowledge base.

Hi all, there’s a small tree (what my dad would call a volunteer, since we didn’t plant it) in my yard and I wondered if anyone recognizes it? ID from online sources say it’s a western redbud but I don’t have a lot of experience with them. Also if so, climate change is clearly happening, since the redbud grows in zones 7-9 and we used to be a zone 6. Included hand for scale