It’s only been a couple of days since I put two little stems of Cornellian Cherry (Cornus mas) into water and already they’re about to pop. I took them from a lone tree in a cemetery not far from here. This morning most of the buds were still clenched into bitty fists, but now, at around 8 in the evening, they’ve unflexed. Sesame seed-sized clusters of gold are beginning to jut up and out of their encasing scales. Perhaps during the night the flowers will spill out and in the morning I will be greeted by more than three-dozen perfect, pointalist suns. If so, Spring will have come to my kitchen table.
Ta-da! ( 2 1/2 days later--- so I was off by a few hours.)
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