January? In Nova Scotia? Canada?

These shots were taken in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 11 January 2007. The typist who took the shots swears that Photoshop was not used to alter, enhance or advance the natural life cycle of these plants. It is the strange winter that has done this.

A rhododendron bud bursting into bloom?

Weeds blooming into flower?

Another shrub showing the it's first shoots of green?

Buds on trees?

More buds on trees?