Walk Through Holy Week With Me: Legend of the Dogwood
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As the legend goes, dogwood trees blossom at Easter. With cross-shaped bracts, petals tinged blood-red at the edges, thorny crown in the center, the blossoming tree does get me thinking. Every year. Like clock work. (See 2006 post about watching the dogwood tree.)
Incidentally, I took the picture above with my Nikon D3 today on ISO 100. Nice performance on the low end of that camera’s range.
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Any bets on whether she will blossom by Sunday morning? Check back tomorrow for an update.
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But the red maples are all aglow today! This is my October Glory red maple.
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Here’s another one of my red maple.
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And here’s the sad little purple leaf plum. Why sad?
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Check out her support brace: electrical tape and an old piece of lumber, put there by Mike in a last-ditch effort to save Gregory’s Tree from the ax.
Incidentally, this is not my recommended method for attempting to correct a leaning tree. To be clear: I wanted to cut the tree down, but Mike said he couldn’t bear cutting it down and was going to try to straighten her. I said, “Whatever,” and washed my hands of that sad little tree. Father, forgive me.
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She has quite a lean, just one thing in her long list of problems.
- Coming Tuesday on my Holy Week walk: something to do with the Last Supper, God willing.
