Showing posts with label Jakaronda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jakaronda. Show all posts

Friday, May 6, 2011

A Jakaranda Moment


I find that I have nothing to write although I sit here wanting to write something.  I drove beneath a Jacaranda tree, flowering off a busy, smoggy street in Glendora. It's that time of year in Southern California, the Time of the Jacaranda.

 Photo by Scott Contini

 Imagine a brilliant  shower of violet blooms, falling like glorious purple snow.  Generosity of  World to give us such gifts. Purple trees!  Miraculous, here, at the bus stop.


 I'm not sure I can say anything that would do justice to the Flowering of the Jacaranda Tribe............I looked throughout the web for poems about Jakaronda, and found many - almost all, departures for what the tree reminded people of.  But I can't imagine such a phenomenon as  reminding me of anything except itself.......I stand beneath the Jakaranda tree, it's falling purple blossums,  my mouth open.  Speechless.


photo by www.irvinehousingblog.com