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Thursday, March 28, 2024

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.

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Today's quote:

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



12 comments:

  1. The blooming trees are beautiful! Take care, have a great day!

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    1. They sure are, and then a rain comes along and poof, the beauty is past. A lesson of some kind here.

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  2. ...cherry trees can be like people, some age better than others.

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    1. The ornamental ones seem to have difficulties, at least the ones I've met.

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    2. ...yep, they don't age gracefully.

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  3. It's so lovely to see the spring time blooming cherry trees there. (NewRobin13)

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    1. I'm enjoying going around looking for specific kinds of things blooming all over the place. A new technique, uses more gas probably, but I'm really only covering maybe a 2 square mile area.

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  4. How pretty! My little cheery has not yet bloomed. Maybe next week. I would love to have a weeping cherry. Maybe one day.

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    1. I prefer the cherry trees which actually provide cherries. One summer I happened to be in Utah and camped in a cherry orchard, and we picked until we had very red mouths, fingers and tongues...and had a few left over for breakfast.

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  5. Beautiful blooming trees! How I'd love a sweet cherry tree. We never got arounnd to planting one, alas.

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  6. You captured some beautiful trees! Thank you for linking up!

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