May Day 2021

Two flower days in a row.  Arbor Day, which, in the United States is the last Friday of April, was yesterday.  Briefly, Arbor Day is a day set aside to raise our awareness of the importance of trees in our lives.  Wood, food for animal and man, shade, production of oxygen - we would find it hard to live on a planet without trees.

Here is a picture of a Kwanzan cherry taken yesterday.

We wouldn't have much beauty, either. 

I wish I had smell-o-blog because this tree (I think it's a black cherry but not sure) smells so sweet, the bees swarm all over the flowers in warmer weather.

May Day, May 1, is, in many countries, a day to celebrate spring. Here are some of my tulips.

Violets in our lawn.
It was so cold and blustery last night, but today the sun is out.  I just hope spring makes up its mind soon.

 

Our wild cherry (purchased years ago from the Arbor Day Foundation and gifted to our son, who, in turn, gave it to us as he had no room for it) is loaded with blooms that might be open by tomorrow.  Too bad it doesn't produce human-good to eat cherries.  Even the birds leave them be until early spring, and they need the fruit then more than I do.

 

One more picture - two ornamental strawberries I am growing this year in a hanging basket.  I overwintered (in our unheated garage) the plant with the pink flowers.  It produced several berries for us last year, small but quite edible.  The red flowered one may be more ornamental, but it's an experiment.

And that's what life is all about.  Discovering.  Experimenting.  Learning.

I wish all my readers the best for this May.