The first
will be the last and the last the first. This Biblical wisdom also applies to the
blossoms of my magnolia tree. It is an early flowering tree, and the first
blossoms proudly showed themselves a month ago. Then disaster struck in the form
of the Russian Bear, the extremely cold week. The pale pink blossoms, looking
like fragile butterflies, shrunk overnight till they resembled crumpled balls
of brown tissue paper. But fortunately there were still buds on the tree, and
those buds were well protected during the winter months by what looks like a beautiful
and warm velvety coat. Now that the temperature is above zero again during the
day, those buds have opened. So the last magnolia blossoms of this Spring are
the only ones now, and so the best – the first after the frost.
Pictures taken last year when the tree was full of blossom
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