Some homes in old Black Mountain

 

Yes, the weeping cherry trees were still in bloom that week.

I don't know what this pretty pink bush was.

A Bradford Peat tree about to turn green

The first glance at a budding azalea. It looks pretty old with many prunings.

The (also old) azalea bush by my front porch, taken April 8.

Today's quote:

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

OMAR KHAYYAM

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Local blossoms

 

Though the Old Depot may have it's Christmas ice-cycles still hanging on the eves, the redbud says, "It's Springtime in Black Mountain."

Across the street by a parking lot a dogwood shows it's blooms.

I cropped this one for the header (which phone readers don't get apparently, nor the right side column)

An older tree blossoms with the Fifth Third Bank in the background.

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Today's quote: 

From Clara Barton, nurse, founder of the American Red Cross

 "The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me."

Rhododendron of Appalachia

Thought for today:

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Springtime blooming

In honor of Earth Day this year, do one more thing for the earth each day. That was my New Years Resolution this year. I miss the mark many times, but it is the only worthy goal I've ever had for a whole year. And without it, I might not be here (nor you) next year.

 

Across the corner from the house that's being rennovated is this lovely home with a "yard" that just blooms with all kinds of loveliness all year. 

Thought for the day:

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.   Anais Nin

 

Short blooms

first the weeping cherry on the corner a week ago...

And the Bradford Pear across the street

With lots of sun and warm days, they didn't last a week, and are sadly dropping petals all over.

Today is rainy and we've got some cooler weather now, so perhaps the next round of blooms will last a bit longer.

Spring finally

Drive on Laurel Circle, and there's a hint of spring coming through pinkness.  Drive into Asheville, a hundred feet or so less elevation, and there are many more blossoms showing.  It's Spring.

Promise of things to come

Spring blossoms Lake Tomahawk, 2012

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.  Wendell Berry. Collected Poems