Flowering Tree at Long Hill

Flowering Tree at Long Hill Originally uploaded by randubnick.

Some of the flowering trees are blooming! I used my phonecam to take this photo a few days ago during a walk at Long Hill Gardens. Blossoming trees always remind me of A.E. Housman's poem about cherry trees. (If you want to look it up, the first line is "Loveliest of trees, the cherry"; also I posted the entire poem on my blog April 30 2005.) Well, tonight, here in Boston there is a hard freeze warning, so who knows if the blossoms will still be on the trees tomorrow. Life is short, as Housman points out (even doing the math for us), so I take his advice and take time to appreciate cherry trees in bloom.