Shepherd Farm

From the last week of March into the first week of April in Maryland, the flowering trees bloom.  It is so glorious as the white, elegant flowers start to peek out of the greed buds.  Each day, a little more of the flowers begin to show until one day all of the trees on the street are adorned with spring blossoms. 

You have to savor the beautiful trees when they bloom.  Stop, look up from the daily grind and see this gift from nature.  It is so fleeting.  In a few days after blooming, a determined wind will blow by and send all the petals flying from the trees like a February snow. 

So when those beautiful flowering trees that frame the front paddock bloom, I stop, I look up from my work, my phone, my blackberry and I enjoy the view.  I snap a mental picture to keep at the ready when the dog days of August are upon us and the dust is swirling about and the trees are a mix of green and brown.  Quick catch a glimpse while you can.