Eleven Day Dogwood: Zooming In, Panning, Studying the Miracle
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Eleven days after Easter: Can you see the drama of the dogwood watch? From a distance, I would never have noticed that this tree is on the verge of beginning to blossom.
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Zooming in on the same picture, I see a hundred bullet pointers! (That’s what pointers that have little round dots on the end are called in info-graphics.) Is it just me, or are you just as excited as I am to see all those dots turn into big beautiful flowers? It’s a yearly miracle!
What do you think: is that the moon above or the sun?
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I was trying to get both buds in focus but seriously blur the background.
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Shifting just a little in my frame, I get the fireplace blurred in the background instead of the arborvitae. Wow, it really changes the whole look of the picture. Backgrounds, even blurry ones, are SO important!
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(This is the picture above, zoomed in really close.)
Months before we started to see leaves emerging, and the coloring up of the petals, and the slightest hint of the petals beginning to open, this one bud was inside that tree, ever so slowly pushing through. I think of trees as being asleep in the winter, almost lifeless. But that’s SO not true! The miracle is happening. I just can’t see it until the dawn of spring.
I wonder what other little miracles like that are happening all around me right now that I’m missing. What else is just below the surface? My dogwood is reminding me to slow down, rest, appreciate the miracle of starting again.
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We have five super-official guesses as to how long it will take our dogwood to reach full blossom.
I said 21 days after Easter — April 13.
My Gemini alter ego said 11 days. (Since that milestone has come and gone, my alter ego is the big loser.)
Brad and Heidi both said 17 days — April 9.
Carolina Girl said 23 days after Easter — April 15.
Jeff from Linden said 40 days — May 2. (Love the symbolism of “40 days.”)
oh oh! I want to guess! I say 38 days!
Comment by Melissa Powell — April 4, 2008 @ 12:55 pm