Short walk at Lake Tomahawk

 

Even on a grey day, one can find beauty at the lake. Reflections are softened.

This Canada Goose couple owned the right of way for walkers, but would let us pass if we didn't look too threatening. I do wonder what they think of the black cards/phones which people point at them like I did here.

The Mallard families waddled away from the lake, and I do hope they were cautious as they cross the road in the distance.

An Oak Hydrangea still had last year's blooms' skeletons, while the new growth is bursting forth!

What's the password please? 

And then there was the cherry tree.

Since the B&B beyond the fence is no longer in business, but sold to a private family, I do hope someone keeps these beautiful gardens up.

Sharing with Eileen's Saturday Critters.

Today is:

National Take a Walk in the Park Day, 

Doctors Day

Today's quote:

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. -

Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1900-1971)

Cherry blossoms on Cherry St.

 I asked the old-timers of Black Mountain at lunch one day, are there cherry trees on Cherry St? It's one of the main streets downtown with lots of shops, restaurants, a tavern, and at least a new art gallery.

They didn't know.

So after lunch I drove over there, and since it's a one way street going uphill, I was lucky to go really slow, since for once there wasn't a lot of traffic. I turned right from Sutton into Cherry St.

Across from the Chifferobe on the other corner, is Sassafras on Sutton. Their upper entrance, to the right as I started up Cherry St. has a tiny courtyard with a blooming cherry tree!

So that is a good start.

Then on the left is Cherry St. Square, with a couple of sad trees that have been pruned. But that's a tiny old cherry tree at the corner of Bone-a-Fide, where pet treats are sold.

Then I turned right into a parking lot which would show what was behind many of the Cherry St. stores...because I knew Sarah Vekasi's pottery shop had a cherry tree behind it.

These early blooming trees on Sutton, next to the railroad tracks, may be a kind of pear, or cherry.

A different day to try to capture the blossoms and the flag.

Today is:  Respect Your Cat Day

Sharing with:

Thankful Thursday

Little Things Thursday

Today's quote:

We all have bad days and within these days is usually a gem of a gift waiting to be opened.

Tis Cherry Blossom time

 I probably have more than these, taken the days before a big frost on Mon. 3.18.24. or maybe Tues. night. Another one will come this Saturday night, 3.23.24. 

So enjoy as I ride around Black Mountain shooting with a phone...nothing much professional, just for the joy of seeing and sharing.

I think there will be some cherry blossoms by the lake too...more soon from there!

Today is  Palm Sunday, 

National Cocktail Day, 

World Tuberculosis Day

Today's quote:

When we recognize our true inner worth, a few dark clouds passing through our minds will not intimidate us. We will see them for what they are—small, dark figures passing through an expansive sky of well-being and truth.

Spring, no foolin' - from another year!

 A repost from April 1, 2019

Sorry, I didn't really take this, but my watermark got saved on a FB post by someone else!

Rabbit rabbit, happy April Fools Day!

Today's quote:

Every single soul is a poem.

MICHAEL FRANTI

My Cherry blossoms just starting

 

Promise, April 12, 2014

 

April 16, 1014

Looking out the window April 23, 2014

April 23, 2013

April 23, 1014

The thing about late blossoms is that they may burst faster and fall faster if there are lots of warm days.  I hope not.  But they are a good 2 weeks later than last year.  In another day my whole studio will be inundated with pink light.  Then when petals fall, it will look like pink snow.

Thought for the day;

We want to create a context of dignity for suffering people. To do so, it is essential to put our fingers on the pulse of our own hearts and make sure our own context of dignity is intact.

Roshi Joan Halifax, Spoken at Legacy of Wisdom conference, April 17, 2011

 

First promise of a blossom

Ornamental Cherry tree is about to burst forth, but there's a hard freeze expected in another day or so.  I hope it has waited long enough to make it through "dogwood winter."

Quote for the day:

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Simone Weil