“Suddenly” is not what blossoms do. I expect they emerge at about the speed of the sun: always in motion but still when you look at them.
So next day, here’s what the cherry orchard (or are they plums?) looked like the day after the shots at the end of this post were taken.
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Not much different. Even though blossoms are peaking all around the park.
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Yesterday:

















Looks like a magnolia to me . . .
Kind’a late this year, must be global “warming” …
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Ken is right, that’s a magnolia. They are blooming down here in Portland too.