Baby Greens

We’re celebrating 2023 by revisiting some of the year’s best photo essays, each plucked from—and emblematic of—one of the four seasons.

Yesterday, we conjured winter. Today? Spring, courtesy of this April 20 essay.

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Spring’s many colors charm us, but we tend to overlook the most important ones: bright and ebullient greens, the kind that make you wonder where yellow begins.

They’re easy to find right now. Then they won’t be, until next spring.

Written and photographed by Dan Mims.