Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands along the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now of my three score years and ten
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
That only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
fifty springs is little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
- A.E. Houseman, A Shropshire Lad, 1896
Good to see a bit of color TB after eight inches of you-know-what Sunday........(sigh)
ReplyDeleteNylon12 - I heard from my friend Shieldmaiden, who lives in your neck of the woods. Snow at essentially the end of March? Madness.
DeleteWe are just starting to get some color and blooming. It still has a long way to go before I can call it beautiful.
ReplyDeleteEd, I amazingly got here just as Spring is starting to do its thing. Which was a great start to a new session of life.
DeleteThanks for sharing, TB.
ReplyDeleteYou all be safe and God bless.
You are welcome Linda. They really are too beautiful not to share.
DeleteThe temple you visited during your last training session in Japan is famous for its Flowering Cherry trees and its Ginko trees.
ReplyDeleteERJ, sadly we are always there too early to see them. At best, some plum blossoms were starting to make their appearance.
DeleteIf I had a bucket list (if the world should survive so long), I would like to see the cherry blossom season in Japan.
There is a survivor on my place. Perhaps the opposite of a lovely bright cherry in bloom. A hardened veteran.
ReplyDeleteDark, deep and shaded by the overstory of big maples and firs, a magnificent Pacific Yew, covered in moss, and unlike most old Yews, that show much battle damage, this one has a perfect umbrella crown, wearing camouflage so few visitors ever see it. I have to point it out even to the arborists.
A Cherry in bloom, could be a "rose lipp'd maiden", but the Yew will never be a "light foot lad".
That sounds lovely, Anon. at least to me.
DeleteSomething to make note of for later in April/early May:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.crystalspringsgardenpdx.org/
It's adjacent to Reed College, and when the Rhodies are in full bloom (depends on weather of course), it is a sight not to be missed.
Greg (not a nony)
Thanks Greg! I am looking for new things and that sound wonderful.
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