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Photo feature: Tourists experience blizzard of blossoms

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, April 7, 2015

By Ben Hillyer

Surrounded by a landscape filled with the big white blooms of a snowball tree and other spring flowers on Pearl Street, Florida tourists Bob and Jean Letsinger read one of the city’s Natchez Trails panels Monday afternoon. In recent weeks, a blizzard of spring flowers have turned Natchez into a springtime wonderland.

Surrounded by a landscape filled with the big white blooms of a snowball tree and other spring flowers on Pearl Street, Florida tourists Bob and Jean Letsinger read one of the city’s Natchez Trails panels Monday afternoon. In recent weeks, a blizzard of spring flowers have turned Natchez into a springtime wonderland.

California resident Anne Walker looks at the white blossoms of the azaleas at the entrance of the antebellum house The Elms.

California resident Anne Walker looks at the white blossoms of the azaleas at the entrance of the antebellum house The Elms.

White azalea blooms dot the grounds of The Elms. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

White azalea blooms dot the grounds of The Elms. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

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