CRAB APPLES

nospam@example.com (Imelda S) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:05:54 -0500

I never took a liking for them. They pale in comparison to the pink and yellow blossoms of spring. They are white. They are tiny and from afar, they look like globs of cotton balls that got caught on the branches. Them. The crab apple blossoms.

I never fancied them until I saw the blossoms up close. Going to Mass last Sunday, my husband parked near a little crab apple tree and I got the chance to look, really look, at its blossoms. That was when I realized how exquisitely pretty they are. They have creamy white petals outlined by pink at the edges, pink pistil (granting that I am naming the parts right) on white filaments, a sweet scent. They'd look lovely on a vase. But since I could not cut a spray, I had to content myself with photos of them.

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Imelda

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nospam@example.com (Imelda S) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:09:36 -0500

We did not have much snow this winter and that spared our backyard from the usual spring flooding when melting snow turn our little ground into a little pond. The drier grounds allowed me to crouch down and get up close with these tiny flowers. The plant itself is no more than 7 inches tall, and the flower bearing stalks are just about the same height. The flowers are about the size of whole peppercorns.

Happy weekend.

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