estuary apple tree

apple blossom, my favourite blossom, perhaps just because it comes out for my birthday! I love the cuppedness of the buds, that remains until they are full stretch. And all the different scents.

These blossoms are from a tree that buds the earliest on the estuary. But even though the earliest blooms have fallen there are still buds.

Now I just wait for the swift/gwennol ddu to arrive.......

light, catching up with spring

as the blackthorn is now fading the hawthorn - may blossom - is about the drape the hedgerows.

bud

SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW
Galway Kinnell

The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self blessing;
although sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing it's loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self blessing:
as Saint Francis
put his hand on the creased forehead
of the sow..........


for the full text buy or borrow: Soul Food, Bloodaxe 2007
amongst others. I'm not sure about writing out whole poems unless they are on an online publication as poets make their living from the sale of books......

may day morning

hawthorn blossom, may blossom...for magical may day morning

always the earliest

down by the estuary the lichen covered apple tree is always the earliest to blossom, by now it is probably covered, nd will have faced frost, perhaps sleet and snow.

thinking of japan

cherry plum blossom

blossom mania occurs...early cherry plums and now the blackthorn, and away from the wild the ornamental cherries.

pink cherry

on 28th february