Future Garden Prom Dresses

 

From my journal of April 10, 2004:

Yesterday was lovely, even today--overcast and chilly--is beautiful because of all the spring colors outside, daffodils, redbud, flowering plum. The most beautiful of all is the crabapple outside my writing room window. Planted just across the creek by the finch feeding station, it is as filly as a 1950s prom dress. I could sit quietly for hours and look at it. There is another one further off, and towards the barn are two red crabapples.

Here is the tree at Valley View that I wrote of:

 It did remind me of the prom dress my mother made me for my senior prom. 

 

Three years ago RH planted three crabapple trees here at Home Hill. 

Some day they will become frilly garden prom dresses and will shade the afternoon sun that pours into the big living room window.
 

When RH clipped the lilac for me before our two nights of freeze, he cut a few small branches of crabapple, too.

 

 I would rather have these garden offerings than buckets full of expensive florist roses...

But...those pink sweetheart roses that RH bought for my wrist and hair were pretty darn nice too!

A happy and blessed Easter to all! 

 

This is my Father's world,

the birds their carols raise,

the morning light, the lily white,

declare their Maker's praise.