I've seriously been accumulating a list of fall recipes since, like, about the time the first buds started sprouting on the trees in March. (connoisseurusveg.com)
Taking a long leisurely walk through the park and smelling the fresh Spring air while admiring all the flowers that are beginning to show their first buds. (blog.folksy.com)
He and his colleagues compiled 13 years of data from citizen scientists in the U.K., who tracked the first bud burst of four common trees. (scientificamerican.com)