To think that I saw it on Mulberry Street

[redbird]

The ornamental cherries in Columbus Park are in bloom.

Not one or two stray flowers: branches covered with small white blossoms, on several different trees.

Columbus Park is in Chinatown, where cattitude and I were walking after eating lunch, thinking in terms of buying some roast meat for tonight's dinner. We were at Bayard and Mulberry when I noticed the flowers. We crossed the street, and saw that yes, there really were flowers (not dried-out leaves or an illusion), many of them. Mostly of the cherry trees are protected by fencing or boulders, but Cattitude was able to reach one flowering branch and pull it down enough for me to touch the soft petals.

A few other people were paying attention to the flowers; most of the people in the park were either playing basketball, eating lunch, or standing in a circle around, I assume, some sort of event that we couldn't see.

I'd been thinking of getting tangerine sorbet already, and the cherries decided it. So there I was, in my old down jacket, eating sorbet and thinking about flowers, with my beloved. A few hours earlier, we'd been discussing the last few green leaves on the honey locust trees in Inwood Hill Park, and noticing that the leaves on the jimson weed were showing signs of last night's freeze, the first of the season.

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Blossoming cherry trees? In December?

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooooooooooh. :)