spring at last

The flowers, leaves and blossoms are coming out now, heralding the first signs of spring. Over here spring does not start on the 1st of March as you might expect, it started last week, which I find to be a little odd, but I guess nature knows best, because that is when the new signs of life began to emerge, just like magic.
This is a flower from our garden, I don't know what it is, may be a camelia?????
Anyway Alex's pre-school went on a "spring neighbourhood walk" with his class last week and everytime we go out he points and marvels at "all the spring stuff".