Blossom Season�

2004-06-07

I took this picture a couple weeks ago.

Clouds of purple jacaranda blossoms. I grew up with a jacaranda tree. Dad planted one for Mom on her first Mother�s Day. I am the firstborn child. I�m more than a bit biased.

For most of my life I counted the seasons by that tree. The blossoms in spring, innumerable leaves in fall, twigs in winter.

My parents cut the tree down a few years ago. I can�t tell them that it hurt me. It is their house, not mine.

But the loss of that tree means something to me. I got my first beesting stepping on a fallen blossom. I made a basket out of the twigs that fall in late Spring.

The sight of jacaranda trees in bloom still moves me.

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