Reub's journey

31 March 2010

Snowing


The trees have been so gorgeous, but this week's wind and rain have taken down the blossoms. This tree is a favorite of mine. I walk past it every day when I go to my classroom, and through it I can sometimes see the flags flying.

This week a student in one of my classes suddenly yelled "IT'S SNOWING!!" which is a little like yelling "FIRE!" in a theater, but in a good way. We all stopped what we were doing, jerked around to look, and sure enough it was snowing. It was snowing beautiful pale pink petals. Magic.

4 comments:

  1. Oh, that's kind of sad to think of all those beautiful trees without their blossoms! I felt like Mom every time we'd drive down Walnut where the flowering trees lined the street - I'd "ooo" and "ahhh" every time, making the girls sick!!! What a beautiful time of year!

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  2. We were lucky that those trees were so beautiful for the wedding; I'm glad you noticed them!

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  3. Kerry, that reminds me of the Peach Orchard from Kurosawa's Dreams.

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  4. Kurosawa's Dreams. There was a phantom girl behind the pink blossoms, wasn't there. What a beautiful sad image that was.

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