Because it is so beautifully April today

[hummingwolf]

Sara Teasdale - Blue Squills
How many million Aprils came
Before I ever knew
How white a cherry bough could be,
A bed of squills, how blue!

And many a dancing April
When life is done with me,
Will lift the blue flame of the flower
And the white flame of the tree.

Oh burn me with your beauty, then,
Oh hurt me, tree and flower,
Lest in the end death try to take
Even this glistening hour.

O shaken flowers, O shimmering trees,
O sunlit white and blue,
Wound me, that I, through endless sleep,
May bear the scar of you.

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[pnksaph.livejournal.com]

O shaken flowers, O shimmering trees,

Because the weather in Washington has been so mild all winter, most of our flowering fruit trees burst into bloom in late February and early March. With the winds of March came little whirlwinds of blossoms, white mini-tornadoes of flower petals, chasing cars down the highways.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Sounds beautiful! I love watching falling petals. Here by the other Washington, peak bloom for the Japanese cherry trees is just about... today. Possibly yesterday. I haven't been into DC this year, but the trees scattered around the neighborhood I live in look lovely.