Spring Snow

May 6, 2010 by Debbie.

Spring is in bloom and although it’s not as showy as past years where everything blooms at the same time, it’s still beautiful and brings both a smile and hope to my heart. I guess it’s also a relief to my sinuses, not having everything bloom at the same time, too. Gotta find those sliver linings, right?

We also had a couple of days with low wind, very unusual, especially for spring up here on the hill. The wind must have  blown last night as I went out back to a driveway full of spring ’snow.’

And here’s the green cloud (OK, you literalists, the tree) that produced the ’snow.’

I really like this tacobba tree even though it shades my herb garden. We had two in our yard when I was growing up. I remember my sister stepping on a horned caterpillar that fell from the tree and her foot swelled up for over a week. Back then we didn’t go to the doctor  for such things but her foot healed just fine.  I also don’t remember it curing her or any of us from running around barefooted either! The neat thing about these trees are the seed pods that hang down like brown Cuban cigars. We were raised before the dangers of smoking were either widely known or believed, not sure which, so we were never told we couldn’t go around with these ‘cigars’ hanging from our lips. We looked soooo mature and worldly, I’m sure.

The first row of green beans I planted are trying to bloom along with the English peas. The garlic  and scallions have sent up their seed pods, which will burst into purple balls any day now. The purple Iris and yellow lilies are blooming in the few flower beds I have left. The leaf lettuce is still sweet as we’ve not yet had our first 90 temp day. That is yet to come. Seems like spring blooms white, purple and yellow at Beulah Land. Wouldn’t that make a pretty quilt?

I hope your world is blooming as well!

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