Flowers Again

[ndrosen]

I went to the optometrist Friday morning, which enabled me to observe flowers. The cherry blossoms which were beginning to open a few days earlier were in full bloom, and there were also other flowers on trees (magnolia, perhaps), on forsythia bushes, and elsewhere. I made particular note of one cherry tree in the little patch of woods on my street. There was only a stub left of the tree trunk, with one branch emerging from it, and then a second branch shooting off at roughly a right angle from the first branch, and then splitting into several branchlets with cherry blossoms on them.

It is touching that such a damaged tree can still put forth flowers, and make its contribution to the beauty of spring.

I have also continued my flower appreciation Saturday and today.