Thursday, April 10, 2025

Flower for the Day Redbud 4-10-25

Each year at this time a miracle occurs. Redbud (Cercis canadensis) blossoms appear on the branches 
of the tree transforming it into a lacy magenta wonder. These flowers are showy, light  magenta pink in color, appearing in clusters on bare stems before the leaves, sometimes on the trunk itself. The entire heartland lights up. We all know that the dogwood blossoms will arrive momentarily.


 

When the mountain brook in night's
stillness tells of its plunging 
over boulders  .  .  .  .
          
                The oldest of the old follows behind
                    us in our thinking and yet it
                    comes to meet us.

                That is why thinking's holds to the 
                    coming of what has been, and
                    is remembrance.

                To be old means: to stop in time at
                    that place where the unique 
                    thought of a thought train has
                    swung into its joint.

    Martin Heidegger

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