WINNER of the Book Spine Poetry Contest. There were too many that delighted me–so I wrote the names of 10 wonderful entries on index cards and let my cat walk across them. The first and last ones he stepped on were the winners–Andria of DrawingNear blog and Paula in Buenos Aires, you won a copy of my book Raw Art Journaling! Books will ship when I get back from teaching at Valley Ridge, the week of May 7.
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One of the delights I experience every spring is the blooming of the Palo Verde trees. The trees have tiny leaves and tiny yellow flowers on green branches supported by green trunks. Palo Verdes evolved to survive the Sonoran Desert by shedding leaves and small branches in the searing heat of the summer. The trunks and big branches do the photosynthesis work, so thy are green.
The trees’ tiny yellow flowers drop off the trees and create the look of bright yellow snow. A slight breeze will cause drifts of blossoms and for a few weeks, these yellow snow-like masses shift and drift on curbs and in corners.
The path to the library is lined with Palo Verdes and today was a perfect day for yellow snow–the nice kind.
–-Quinn McDonald is a naturalist who thrives on the Sonoran Desert’s surprises.
Whoop whoop! Many thanks to you and your kitty!
He was happy to help. I got tired of using random number generators.
Thanks to you and your cat! I´m totally thrilled. It´s a great start to my new year and very much in line with all the animals experiences I´d been having this week.
You are so very welcome!
I have a red bud tree (east coast specific i’m sure) – but it does the same over my deck in mid april – but pink snow – never thought to take a pic – will remember to do so next spring!!!!
I love redbuds, we had one in our yard for years. They are lovely. And their flowers are tinted so delicately