Nature’s confetti! Beautiful ❤️

Pretty!

We have similar ”litter” in our back yard, which is less appealing when our dogs track it into the house.

We had an unexpected freeze after the cherry blossoms bloomed and they all fell of overnight. What a pretty view you have.

Cherry blossom apocalypse

So pretty!

so pretty! I love cherry trees--we have two of them and love this spring "snow"!

So pretty!

So lovely (love the pears, too)!

So pretty!

We don’t have cherry trees, we have flowering crab, also lush and colorful. We had a next door neighbor with the most glorious one by his back patio. One spring, he cut it down in its full glory. "Too many petals to sweep up." No, he wasn't Mr T, just odd.

OMG, that's so weird!!! There's no reason to sweep up petals--they just become part of the soil!! So sad about the tree!

What a beautiful view.

I love falling petals too. We had a chinaberry tree that bloomed with masses of fragrant violet/white flowers and the petals would drift down through the air like a scene from a fairy tale 🙂

Do you get edible cherries too?

Lovely. My Bradford pear trees lost all their blossoms in a windy rain storm this year.

Yes, I did ejoy all the lovely pics…After the sad disappointment that there was to be

no news of Mtns new puppy.🙂‍↕️

LOL!!!

I too was expecting puppies, but am just as pleased with the great view out the window. I know I'm supposed to focus on the petals, but I'm too taken by the architecture of those red brick homes.

Downtown Charlottesville has a beautiful weeping cherry near the Beaux Arts building that is now the historical society. The park where the tree lives was the site of our 2017 troubles. The statue of Lee atop Traveler has been removed, was disassembled and re-envisioned and the bronze is now to be used in a new sculpture.

Amid the turmoil and change the tree stays lovely.

Yeats ago I worked as a paralegal downtown and often walked through this park. It made me smile to see Traveler.

@lisaam I have read about and am eager to someday see the Kara Walker scuplture you pictured below. She is one of my favorite artists. We have a huge print of her's from the Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Yes, we chose this spot for the views, both of the park and the c 1850 buildings which circle the park.

I find it very sad that many of the monuments from the Civil War are being destroyed. Ignoring our past doesn't do anyone any good. They could have been placed in a museum for future generations to learn from.

Beautiful, @chinacatpeekin

Yellow dust in Arizona!(From the Palo Verde trees with their lovely green bark!)

I love the petals-gorgeous.

I don’t want to derail this post, but @Diana Bier Interiors, LLC you might want to study the history of why and when statues like the Lee one were erected.

re: the story behind Charlottesville’s Robt E Lee statue. Paul Goodloe McIntire left many gifts to UVA and Charlottesville including the Lee statue. Here’s some info from C-ville Weekly written by my friend Lisa Provence:

”Paul Goodloe McIntire’s gift of the Lee statue came in 1924, a time when Ku Klux Klan membership was at its peak, says Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy. It was a time when “it was plausible to believe that the values and core beliefs of those in positions of leadership differed from the current leadership,” and he says some residents see the statue as a “psychological tool to show dominance of the majority over the minority” during that time.

Whether that was McIntire’s intention is not found in the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society files, although he did invite the Confederate Veterans, Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy to plan the statue’s unveiling.”

It doesn’t matter why it was erected. My problem is with erasing history, no matter the reason. Someone once said that they who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it.

Moving these statues to a museum where they can be used for teaching history and understanding the past is better than pretending it didn't happen. Witness the holocaust museums. The concentration camps are open for visitors to see what happened and educate people about the history of the evils of Fascism instead of ignoring them. My daughter (born in 1989) went to Poland and visited Dachau and was shocked and moved by what she saw there. What would have been gained if they had just demolished the camps and eradicated all traces of the evils of Nazism? Future generations would have no knowledge of what happened. A perfect recipe for repetition of these types of crimes.

I don’t disagree with that resolution, Diana. My inclination with these divisive public monuments would be to add information to provide a historical framework, but I also know that what this statue means to me is significantly different than to Black residents and I trusted their values more than mine on this.

Unfortunately we can still feel traces of the impact of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction in current day events; so there are living reminders.

This one clematis out-bloomed itself this year. Yesterday i noticed the fallen petals on the ground. And still a lot of blooms on the plant.

@mtn, what a pretty view! I would do nothing except endlessly look out the window.