lilacs

tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Lilacs. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Image: GrrlScientist, 4 May 2009 [larger view]. When I lived in beautiful Seattle, there were lilac bushes in my yard, and mostly everywhere else, too. So every day, I would cut fresh lilac flowers for my little house (which I shared with 46 lories) and the entire place smelled glorious. It is the smell of lilacs that mean spring to me.