Friday 19 April 2019

The tree outside my window

I'm going to keep a track of this on Instagram, it's so beautiful!

The tree is an ornamental cherry that grows in my next door neighbour's garden.

In general I'd really rather sleep with my head at the other end of my bed, but I choose this way round so I can look out at the tree.

To remind you, here was the tree outside my window last November.



Then, on a day of lucid early spring sunshine in the second week of February, it looked like this.



On the eleventh of April — just a week ago — it looked like this.



We'd had some chilly days when the wind was cold, but you can see the leaves just emerging and the flower buds ready to break.

Then yesterday was really warm, so by the middle of the night above the streetlamp it looked like this.



And in the lovely light of advanced sunrise, like this.



It's a beautiful day with a slight breeze, and the blossoms have continued to unfold. By mid-morning it looked like this:






And I do believe it was even gloriouser by lunchtime.


You can sit here and watch the leaves unfurling and the blossom opening in the sun! Every time I look at it, it's even prettier.


May you always have a tree outside your window, to make your heart happy.


8 comments:

greta said...

a birch tree is directly in my line of sight as i sit here typing. our trees are not as far along as yours are but they are slowly beginning to leaf out. trees are indeed friends to our souls!

Pen Wilcock said...

How lovely! We have three silver birches in our garden, their leaves just starting to open. The ash trees are just branches still.

Rebecca said...

I DO!

Bean said...

beautiful. I just said to my husband today that I feel I can almost see the leaves growing throughout the day, truly awesome!

Happy Easter,
Bean

Lynda said...

I am enjoying our beautiful autumn foliage at the moment, but I love trees at any time of year :)

BTW - I did comment on you blog post about your blogger friends, and thanked you for visiting me 'on the other side of the world', but it doesn't seem to have come through?

So, just saying again here...thanks for the visits 'neighbour'! :) xx

Pen Wilcock said...

Hello Rebecca — I'm so glad you also have a tree. They bring such joy.

Hello Bean — Happy Easter!

Hello Lynda — Whatever happens to these comments?! The seasonal variation of trees is one of life's greatest beauties.

Anonymous said...

Hi Penelope,
We've had a weird wet winter and spring here in Minnesota, but finally the peeper frogs are singing and the bushes have begun to bud, but the oaks I live amongst are still a bit behind. Happy Easter, happy spring!
DMW

Pen Wilcock said...

Hiya — waving!

— if anyone else (like me) had never heard of the peeper frogs DMW mentions, here they are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_L7Ha6uwQA