Cherry Blossoms

 The cherry trees bloomed this week. They are such a delicate pink. To create the right color for a painting, you would have to mix only one drop of red into a very large quantity of white. The Bradford pears, also blooming right now, offer a subtle comparison between their truly white blossoms and the palest pink possible of the cherry trees. It’s an ephemeral season; masses of fluffy blossoms on Monday, a snowstorm of petals on Thursday, then half-bare branches showing tiny leaflets on Saturday.