Late Bloomer

I will not add any commentary to the facts I am about to report; however, please feel free to apply your own interpretation. This story has so many metaphors that could be drawn from it.

"Our" Tree
Now that we've lived here for four months, I can honestly say that Brandon and I lucked out with the placement of our apartment. We are very near the main road, but not on it; we have a lovely bay window that faces outwards, instead of just facing another apartment building; we have two parking lots and don't have to deal with street parking; AND, we have a lovely tree that blossoms, and doesn't just leaf.
That may not sound like such a big deal, but just step into our apartment for a minute...actually, walk up the steps to our apartment from the parking lot...oh, wait, all you have to do is drive past our building on the street and, KABLAM!, there is "our" tree, in all its blossoming glory. As you can see from our new blog background pic, the tree takes up our entire bay window view, and it has become the topic of much conversation and the object of much observation.
"What were you talking about and watching for on the tree?" you may be wondering. WELL...for almost an entire month, while all of the other trees and flowers were blossoming, "our" tree sat there, stagnant. Ok, not exactly stagnant-- it had some little leaves and a ton of buds-- but we had no idea if it would flower or leaf, and we especially had no idea when. And we were so anxious about what was going to happen!
Our neighbor, a biologist, told us a few weeks ago that "our" tree (ok, it is just as much her tree as ours, because she sees it out of her window too!) was a Kwanzan Cherry Tree and that it would definitely blossom. She even said it would be more spectacular than the other cherry trees! Every day we kept checking to see if the blossoms had burst open...and then, one day, when the temperature had creeped above the fifties...


We thought, and hoped, "our" tree would have some blossoms, but not in our wildest imaginations did we picture it exploding with hundreds of pink puff balls! "Our" tree is a late bloomer, and it was well worth the wait. We can't wait to see what it will look like in the summer and fall, but for now we are going to just enjoy.