Apple Blossoms
Malus domestica blossoms, photographed on April 23rd, 2024.
Apple Blossoms
The delicate pink and white blossoms of apple trees (Malus domestica), photographed in the Cambie neighbourhood at the end of April:
More Flowering Crabapple Blossoms
A few, floriferous boughs on street trees, photographed in late April in the Cambie neighbourhood:
in the morning after an April shower
and in the early evening beneath a cloudless, blue sky
Pink Flowering Crabapple
Photographed in late April 2021 in the the Cambie and Fairview neighbourhoods.
Apple Blossoms
Apple Blossoms
by Susan Kelly-DeWitt
One evening in winter
when nothing has been enough,
when the days are too short,
the nights too long
and cheerless, the secret
and docile buds of the apple
blossoms begin their quick
ascent to light. Night
after interminable night
the sugars pucker and swell
into green slips, green
silks. And just as you find
yourself at the end
of winter’s long, cold
rope, the blossoms open
like pink thimbles
and that black dollop
of shine called
bumblebee stumbles in.
(Source: Poetry Foundation)
Photographed on April 30th during an evening photo walk in my neighbourhood.
Flowering crabapple
Flowering Crabapple (Malus species) on Heather Street, April 30, 2014
Flowering crabapple
A favourite, especially sweet this past April as I missed its blossoming time last year.
Flowering crabapple (Malus)
The flowering tree I would choose for my fantasy garden.