Cherry tree redux …
UPDATED, April 6th, 2025
Cherry blossom season has arrived somewhat behind schedule tis year. What that means is that the various types of cherry (and plum) blossoms across BC’s Lower Mainland seem to have popped at the same time. The city is a veritable panoply of pink, with some truly breathtaking sights in all directions.
Last night I checked in on ‘my’ tree, just to make sure it was still intact and doing well. The good news: it is. And, I’m pleased to say, still garnering a decent share of the ‘underdog’ attention it so deserves. It’s funny—nay reassuring—how the little things in life can bring such peace, given the insanity of what appears to be the state of the world today.
UPDATED, March 17th, 2016
In case you were wondering just how early spring has sprung, here’s ‘my’ cherry tree today, a good two weeks ahead of schedule…
Also, just as I mentioned below, other people were there taking pictures.
I love this cherry tree, which at some point suffered a catastrophic injury that broke its trunk.
***
Cherry tree sm
I don’t know what it is but this cherry tree down the street has me in its power.
I took this shot the other night in anticipation of the blossoms that will soon obscure its tangled branches. It still has that kind of spooky Halloween look. But that will all be gone in a couple of weeks, lost in a puffy canopy, a parasol that only nature could design.
Every year I look at it in wonder. I revere it as much as for as its impossible beauty in bloom as for its ability to survive, and spring ever outwards from its truncated stump.
Who knows what catastrophe befell it? But someone had the heart to leave it there to give us years more pleasure.
I’m not the only one who’s smitten. As I was trying to frame the shot on my phone, a woman stopped to tell me how she too is always in awe.
Funny how nature has a way of keeping us sane.
UPDATED: And here it is today!
Both tree and I are still here, one year later. And it looks even more gorgeous …
West End cherry, 2014
Leave A Comment