Much Ado about Blossoms

Nature is such an amazing thing. She has her own rhythms and cycles and while things seem similar they are never really the same. Take our apple trees or instance. A couple of years ago we had bumper apple crops. Last year I can only remember seeing one apple on all four of our trees. 

Even in the years when we had bumper crops, I don't ever remember seeing the trees loaded with blossoms like they are this year. There are leaves on the trees, but you can't see them for the blossoms. It seems truly remarkable - so I'm remarking.

And apple blossoms are delightful flowers. They are delicate and subtle and wonderfully fragrant. They have a marvelous range of color from the deep pinks of the budding blossom to the pure white  pink tinged mature flowers - and everything in-between.

But all that floral exuberance will come to naught without the help of some very dedicated enablers.

This appears to be an extremely fecund spring in the Adirondacks. Flowering trees all over the forest are loaded with blossoms. And now we're getting rain too. All good signs and the concerns about dryness and fire danger have, at least momentarily, been dampened. But Mother Nature is a fickle bit.. lady, so who ever knows........?

Photography by Burdette