After seeing the beautiful pictures of spring blooming trees, that my brother, Dwight, has been posting on The Curmudgeonly Professor, I could hardly wait for an opportunity to take some of my own. Since we live next door to an orchard full of fruit trees, the panorama of blooming trees lasts quite a while. However, this is the best I can do this morning. At 3 degrees F above zero this morning, the sun filtered through the old lilac bush in a beautiful way with the coating of hoar frost becoming our early blossoms. Spring must be just around the corner?
Twenty-seven years ago, we were looking for a small tree to plant in the mini-garden that was seen from the operatories in Ron's dental office in Tumwater. The nurseryman assured him that the ceracydum japonicum, katsura tree, would stay very small and be suited for that garden. After a couple of years, the tree began to look like more than small, so he dug it up, and we found a place for it on Tumwater hill. While we were back in Olympia-Tumwater, we drove by our former home, and there was the katsura tree in all it's glory - probably between 25 and 30 feet high. But it is a very beautiful tree! At the foot of it is one of my birthday presents, a beautiful red Japanese maple. Time does bring many changes.
