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.

This is what they look like up close. I'm not sure if those are buds for more flowers yet to come, or the stumps where some of them used to be.

 The view out of my office window demonstrates either potential, or missed opportunity.

The Bou(r?)gainvilleas, on the other hand, still look pretty much exactly like they have for the last 11 months (though maybe a little bushier).