I’m late, I’m late for a very important date.

Can you tell I am barely keeping up with spring? Come to think of it…it’s summer now, isn’t it? If you go my the astronomical calendar, I guess it is still spring for another 17 days. But the meteorological calendar says summer started four days ago. Either way, I am running late. Life is bursting, swelling, pushing, popping, blooming, and dying back faster than I can keep up right now. I say this every year, but spring in the North is fast! Zero to a hundred in six weeks.

I love blackberry blossoms. Their delicate white flowers are one of my very favorite spring arrivals. And I almost missed them! This branch was the very last branch with flowers in my whole yard as you can see by the number of exposed calyces where the petals have all dropped away.

On a completely separate note, if you get a chance to see the movie Silent Friend on a big screen, please do so! Borrowed from my friend Julka: “It was directed by Ildikó Enyedi and weaves together three stories across multiple generations, all centered around the same ginkgo tree on a university campus in Germany. It is about human and plant relationships and the limitations of human understanding. It is also the only film I have ever seen that, in the credits, names all the plants that were in the film! I haven’t heard people talking about it, so I am telling everyone I know to go see it!”

late blackberry flowers