Yellow Springs to Hendersonville, North Carolina: The cool spring has kept back development throughout the region. Cincinnati showed no real change from Dayton except for one small patch of half-open daffodils. A few pear trees seen in bloom near Lexington, but the undergrowth showed no change  until southern Kentucky. At a Kentucky rest stop, ground ivy and some dandelions were in bloom. Pear trees continued to appear in northern Tennessee, and some red and orange flowering of the canopy through the Smokies. Huge roadside plantings of daffodils along I-40 are in full bloom, both white and yellow varieties. Knoxville  showed little change, and we didn’t see the first redbud in bloom until well along toward Ashville. The campground in Hendersonville had a huge weeping cherry in full bloom, many of its petals falling when we were there. Walking  Bella on the grounds there, I saw a patch of spring violets.