The very first...

...almond blossoms in Germany 2015.

Found and taken yesterday.

Along the Palatinate Wine Route near Landau, Pfalz.

For a moment we thought that we wouldn't find one flower on the many almond trees in the Palatinate region - none of bushes or trees in thís region had buds or even green leaves so far.

But then it was like a colour miracle:

On 1 out of 100 almond trees we found the very first gentle almond blossom.

So after a whole day of driving and hiking through this blessed region we finaly found three almond trees where one or two of its branches have born some almond flowers.

In two or three weeks of sunny and warm spring weather

the almond alleys should look like on the painting we saw at the town of Landau.

Almond blossom season 2014 along the Palatinate Wine Route

All photos taken last Saturday, between Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße,

Palatinate Wine Route, Germany.

The almond (Prunus dulcis, syn. Prunus amygdalus, Amygdalus communis, Amygdalus dulcis) (or badam in Indian English, from Persian: بادام‎) is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia. "Almond" is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree. 

The Palatinate Wine Route is one of the rare regions in Germany where thousands of this thermophilic tree are cultivated amidst the Palastine vineyards.

Edenkoben, Heilsbruck monastry and Hambach castle in the background