Spring Trees

The trees of Spring are so pretty.

Mother loved redbuds

But being careful with a dollar, she would never go out and buy one

No, we would stop and try to dig up a wild one.

After many attempts at digging one up and not succeeding

(they have roots down to China),

my brother and I finally bought her one as a Mother's Day gift

As because Mother loved redbuds, so do I.

In 1972, Jim and I, after all, moved to The Redbud City

Nevada, Missouri!

I love to look out on pretty things as I'm doing dishes so I like plants that I can see from the kitchen window.

I planted a redbud outside my kitchen window of our first house

but we moved before it grew very big

I didn't plant, but it grew, a redbud outside Linderhof's windows.

This from the upstairs window, directly over the kitchen one

It's grown and is a nice specimen.

Some years, I'll cut branches and bring inside.

On the south side of the house, we had a beautiful pink dogwood

Right outside the dining room window

But it was an old, pink dogwood, planted by Ruth I am sure.

By the time we came along it wasn't healthy and came down.

But when we first moved here in April, I loved to see the blooms outside the dining room window

We replaced it, but not in the same spot

It's till a little tree but today it is full of blooms.

I know you should not covet anything, but I do covet

my daughter's crab apple tree

It's an old tree

And a little mis-happen

because there was some street work done and she begged them not to cut the tree down

And they didn't!

But they did end up chopping off some of the branches on the left side.

It's a beautiful tree

And I did covet it.

Three years ago, we were up when the tree bloomed.

I was quite taken aback by it's beauty

And decided that there needed to be one at Linderhof.

I did my homework about pink blooming crab apples and what varieties there are

But I shouldn't have bothered.

Because by the time I got home, did my research and went out here to search

for a tree

there were few left

And this year, it is abloom!

It is the same variety as Sarah's.

The one tree that was left at Wal Mart that year!

It even leans right as does Sarah's tree.

That, believe me is not intentional,

but when you buy the only one left . . . 

And I can see it from the dining room window!

And it brings a smile to my face!

When you plant a tree, you're often planting it for those who come after you.

I'm sure that that is true of this tree.

And I hope they enjoy it as much as I.