Thursday, April 20, 2006
Sic transit gloria cherry
As promised, the cherry blossoms came and went quickly, but spectacularly. The picture with the blossoms was last Saturday - I think we got a few more on the top branches on Sunday, but that was pretty much the peak. The "after picture" was taken this morning at sunrise, with just a few blossoms hanging on amid the new leaves.
Fortunately, the leaves are a beautiful bronze and green when they open out, complementing the red brown trunk. A.E. Housman was right about cherry trees, as about so many things*, but it's not just the blossoms.
* e.g., "... malt does more than Milton can/To justify God's ways to man"
