A Beautiful Sight...

 

It's no secret that we had a long, cold winter. We had some concern that we might not have much of an apple crop this year.

 

Well, well, well...just looky here! These blooms tell a different story :) Every tree bloomed its little heart out. Just goes to show, what do we know about anything? Nature, if anything, is always surprising.

 

 

 

 

When I left for a trip to Florida earlier this month, the trees were barren in the still cold and drizzly Ohio climate, despite being early May. Winter just did not want to give in.

Gazing upon these fragrant blooms the morning after I returned gave me a sense of what Dorothy must have felt like when she opened her farmhouse door and stepped into the Technicolor world of Oz.

 

 

This lovely poem by Susan Kelly-Dewitt expresses how wonderful it is to see blossoms after a long winter:

 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/247180

 

Apple Blossoms

BY SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT

One evening in winter

when nothing has been enough,

when the days are too short,

 

the nights too long

and cheerless, the secret

and docile buds of the apple

 

blossoms begin their quick

ascent to light. Night

after interminable night

the sugars pucker and swell

into green slips, green

silks. And just as you find

yourself at the end

of winter’s long, cold

rope, the blossoms open

like pink thimbles

and that black dollop

of shine called

 

bumblebee stumbles in.

 

 

Marcheta *stumbling in