Music in Bloom: Your Photos

Israel Fuller of Brooklyn Park, Minn., spotted this dandelion — a sign of summer that is beloved by some, anathema to others.


Classical MPR's Julie Amacher took a photo of this flower in Minnehaha Park while she was walking to Harmony in the Park.


Neil Wingert of Chaska, Minn., writes, "This tree is outside the entry to the General Electric manufacturing facility in Minnetonka, Minn. Its blossoms usually last only a day or two before Spring rains sweep the petals away. I caught this image on one of our perfect afternoons, May 22, 12:56 p.m."


Kristine Spangard of Minneapolis took this photo, and she writes, "Every June, stunning red poppies burst open in my garden for a fleeting few days."


Israel Fuller of Brooklyn Park, Minn., snapped this hosta.


Rebecca Czubin of Prescott, Wis., took this photo of a heart inside a lily in her parents' garden in New Richmond, Wis.


Linda Carlson of Chaska, Minn., sent this photo of the trees blooming alongside the driveway at her house.


Israel Fuller of Brooklyn Park, Minn., spied these irises.


Peggy Parenteau of White Bear Lake, Minn., took this close-up shot of new growth on a pine tree in Hill City, Minn.


Israel Fuller of Brooklyn Park, Minn., calls this photo "Flowers with Butterfly Sculpture".

Dick Schoenberger of St. Cloud, Minn., photographed this loon family at St. John's in Collegeville, Minn., on June 3, 2014.


Emily Raleigh of Eagan, Minn., took this photo of an Indigo Bunting at the feeder in her front yard.


Israel Fuller of Brooklyn Park, Minn., saw this ant hill.


Susan Hansen of Cottage Grove, Minn., says she took this photo of an "oriole just as the new leaves are coming out. They eat two pounds of grape jelly every day during this early month."


Israel Fuller of Brooklyn Park, Minn., captured this image of a robin in the grass.


Karen Erickson of Alexandria, Minn., took this photo, about which she writes, "This is spring to me: robins making nests and hatching babies. These are the three baby robins a few days before they flew away from the nest by my front door."


Carolyn Bock of Eagan, Minn., took this photo, about which she writes, "Keeley, a two-year-old Pointer-Husky mix, savors the bliss of the first ice cream cone of the summer after a five-mile run."

Sharon Falkowski of Cape May, N.J., shared this photo of a Northern Lights Music Festival float, taken in Aurora, Minn., on July 3, 2010.


Steve Fusselman of Chaska, Minn., took this photo at Staring Lake Amphitheater in Eden Prairie, Minn., at an evening rehearsal of the Eden Prairie Players. "It's not summer without yet another summer musical!" Fusselman writes.


Classical MPR's Vaughn Ormseth took this photo of the Riverblenders choir lining up to go onstage at Harmony in the Park in Mankato, Minn., on June 8, 2014.


Sarah Kempf of St. Paul, Minn., took this photo of the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra at Lake Harriet bandshell in Minneapolis.


Bethany Wirrin of Marshalltown, Iowa, took this photo of Ben and Betsy having fun at a waterpark in the Wisconsin Dells.


MPR employee Patty Mester took this photo at Harmony in the Park in Duluth, Minn., on June 15, 2014.