cherry blossom time
is past, but still to come are
dogwood days
Copyright 2019 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: This is an old photo, but I’m cheering myself up that, although the cherry blossoms are gone, other trees are still in bud. Previous years I had more time to walk around and take photos, but these days I’m in the office at dawn, and rushing to get dinner after dark. But I still manage to get a few new snaps here and there. Like magic.
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35 thoughts on “Dogwood Days”
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If there is anything I miss about life up north it’s the Dogwood trees in springtime!
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It is a glorious time. I remember them blooming in North Carolina with the redbuds.
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Oh, and the redbuds!
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Lovey–and I love the hopefulness that more good is just around the corner. The dogwoods here are in full bloom and have been glorious.
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Thanks. I set up my hammock, and I look forward to the scent on the air.
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I love tracking the predictable sequence of blooming things. Along with the dogwoods come the lilacs!
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My lilacs are just starting to open. I’ll have to check the dogwood, too.
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I noticed the dogwood starting to bloom around here. I love to go walking down the streets that are in full bloom.
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What a gorgeous image of a road lined in lowering dogwood.
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Gorgeous! When I was a kid, someone told me that, since dogwood was the state flower, you could go to jail if you did something to them (I can’t remember what… picked them? messed with them? looked at them funny?) I took it very seriously at the time.
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Tabatha, now that you mention it, I also remember being told, as a child, something about it being illegal to pick a dogwood blossom, or something like that. Wracking my brain to try and remember why…I’m pretty sure I spread the word like gospel!
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You are so lucky to have grown up with them. I don’t recall any dogwood near me. We had a lilac.
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LOL I love how earnest kids are.
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I love the flowering trees, and we such a variety of them here in the northwest. Lovely poem, Brenda, full of promise, like spring.
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Such a beautiful time of year when the trees bloom.
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Brenda, so glad to see you back with us and just in time for a new spring photo and lovely haiku that is filled with hope. #haikuforhope.
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🙂 I love that you have a hashtag ready.
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I love the sweet simplicity and promise in this poem.
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Thanks, Molly.
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Thanks for sharing your lovely dogwood, which we don’t have here. Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
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They do have a glorious flowering.
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apple trees are blooming, soon the dogwood! Sorry you can’t get out in the day more, but glad you posted!
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Those blossoms are very pretty. Our dogwood is starting to get green. Pretty soon!
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pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty AND pretty. Dogwood are one of my favs! I love them.
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They are gorgeous, aren’t they?
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I never want the flowering to end!
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Me, neither!
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Lovely! We have both going on this year at the same time. Last winter 2017, was horrible and we barely had any blossoms that Spring. This year, they are all doing beautifully. I really can appreciate the Spring this year, finally! 💗
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How lucky you are. This year the rain is not giving the blooms much time.
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Gorgeous! We have dogwoods in bloom too, but white not pink.
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The white are natives. My neighbor has this glorious pink one, but it’s not native here.
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We have a huge spirea next to my house that blooms every spring…it’s like fairy dust!
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They are such enthusiastic bushes. If only they smelled as sweet as they looked. 🙂
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Lovely…
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Thx!
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