Nashville’s cherry trees seem more spectacular than ever to me this year. Maybe that’s because I’ve been paying attention to them more than I used to. There’s something particularly poignant this spring about those clouds of white-blushing-pink, a botanical legacy of Japan. This week NPR’s Morning Edition aired a story–Japan’s Cherry Blossoms in Brief, Beautiful…
What’s blooming now in Nashville? Redbuds, cherry trees, phlox, & crabapple.
“Transitioned” – Stories of people in our community adapting to an economy in flux, on Nashville Public Radio I’ve had a lot of conversations in the past year about the economy. In those discussions, folks don’t tend to talk about unemployment numbers, the TED Spread, or the Dow. Most of us don’t experience our financial lives…
For me, spring comes to Halcyon Avenue…when the first human emerges from hibernation, and the first sun-warmed porch swing finally rocks into life again.
What’s blooming today in Halcyon Garden?
In Japan right now, families should be enjoying the sakura zensen, the “cherry blossom front” that sweeps northward from Okinawa to Hokkaido from January through early April. Throughout the spring, families and friends celebrate Hanami, picnics shared beneath the luminous pink-and-white canopies of blooming ornamental cherry. Instead, this springtime in Japan brings unimaginable calamity. As…
What’s blooming in Nashville? Magnolia stellata–a lovely, early-blooming small tree, native to Japan. Unfortunately, you don’t see it nearly as frequently as its ubiquitous blooming contemporary, the Bradford pear. I will supply a photo of that execrable weed, so beloved of contractors. But the photo in no way constitutes an endorsement of that blighted, flimsy-limbed,…
It doesn’t have to be hideous or gnome-related. A couple of examples from the Halcyon garden:
The Greenery 