Showing posts with label crabapple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crabapple. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

May Day…

Every year there are two weeks of pink in our yard as the crabapple tree blooms.  Every year I become obsessed with taking pictures of the pink buds, pink flowers, and falling pink petals.  This year I seem to have taken even more than usual.  When I was young my grandmother brought May Day baskets to our door, rang the doorbell and hid.  Slowly this tradition faded away to a memory.   This is my May Day basket of posies, left at the door…

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Too many photos but paradoxically it still doesn’t seem like enough.