The jacarandas are coming?

Apparently, according to local informants, there is a time sometime around this time of year when I can expect G'town to explode with bright purple flowers from the jacarandas.
Either it's passed and it was lamer than they implied, or it's about to get here.  But this is a photo I snapped today of Somerset st, in front of campus. The Jacarandas are the highly contrastive.