flowers
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A couple of catalpa branches with tardy tips blooming — four weeks later
Almost to the precise date, four weeks ago today I noticed the hourly speed with which a catalpa tree begins to show the berry-like tips on their branches which will become cotton-like bulbs, before turning into gentle white flowers with purple lines and yellow stains on the inner part of their petals. Their short lives…
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Joy Beyond Relevance
they caught my eyegentle, fragile physicalitysoft colorslight blue huessurrounded by many greensand bothlight blue and greensall seem somewhat irrelevantjust being thereno fruitno use I can seeno need that I am able to perceiveyetthe joy that they are therejust for a few weeksor even lessjust as long as weather, their own cycle, or the mower permit…
Sila Blume 