Living – Places: 38

2026

It does my heart so much good to pause for a moment on my walk to contemplate the beauty of fresh apple blossoms, one of my favorite springtime flowers. The lane I walk along used to have orchards a long time ago. Today, there a few old apple trees remaining along the way, and they still exuberantly flower each spring, even this spring after the exceedingly warm, dry winter we just had. What a gift!

A pair of white apple blossoms with five rounded petals each, and thin, yellow tipped pollen stalks shine in the morning sun. They are surrounded by round, reddish-pink unopened blossoms. There are pale green fresh leaves behind the blossom clusters. In the out-of-focus background can be seen many more clusters of blossoms.


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It's way too early because of our very warm winter, but still so welcome. The wild plum bushes flower first and then leaf later. A good sized bush has thousands and thousands of blossoms, and they emit an incredibly lovely fragrance. To walk past a flowering wild plum bush is to spend a few moments immersed in total bliss.

Clusters of white blossoms with thin yellow pollen stems emerging from the center.


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