May 10 2009
A Flowering Tree
I don’t know what kind of tree this is, but thanks to my crappy little camera phone I was able to take a picture of it. I love walking around the neighborhood taking pictures and spring is one of my favorite times of the year.
I think this is some sort of flowering cherry tree. I have a similar tree in my front yard but the flowers are more pink than the purplish pink of this tree. The tree in front of my house is also much smaller than this one.
Regardless, spring is a great time of year to watch nature come to life, especially in New England where everything is covered with snow throughout the winter. Spring makes winter more bearable, at least to me.
When you see the flowers all blooming and the trees full of leaves it is almost possible to forget the long winter nights, the snowblowing and all the shoveling. Almost.
I’m relatively sure that it’s a crepe myrtle, but it could be a dogwood…LOL…It looks a lot like the tree at the corner of our yard. Spring has sprung, and our rabbit–not a friend but a visiting moocher–has discovered the Elephant Ears and the Tiger Lily, and has used them as his personal veggie garden. His time on this earth is limited because hubby has a gun and knows how to use it.
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whatever it is, the tree sure have lovely flowers.