Blooming Apple Trees Bring Sweet Memories

One of the best parts of spring is seeing apple trees in full, splendorous, pink bloom.

Smelling the fragrant blossoms is even better. They are so sweet and beautiful.  A blooming apple tree looks like an explosion of pink cotton candy. 

Whenever I see an apple tree in bloom, it makes me think of my father. He loved the apple trees in the backyard of my childhood home. They were actually crab apple trees. The fruits they produced were small, tart apples.  Personally, I didn't like them and often found them to be quite wormy. Plus, the taste was way too sour for my palate.

As a child, I used to love to climb up in an apple tree in the back yard and drink in the beauty when pink blossoms covered the branches.  It felt like being in the middle of some enchanted wonder world.

Even today, the sweet fragrance of apple blossoms remains one of my favorite springtime smells.



The other day, I drove past the old homestead. Strangers live there now and the front yard apple trees are gone. For a brief moment, I thought how wonderful it would be to drive into the driveway and  visit my parents once again. But, alas, they are both gone now,  to the land of perpetual apple blossoms. Life goes by so quickly. One day we are children and then, faster than we can imagine, childhood is gone, forever.

I miss my parents so much .  They were good people who raised five daughters, now all grown up with children of their own. What I wouldn't do to hug them one more time or see their sweet faces standing on the porch, waving goodbye after a visit.

 Now I realize how precious each and every moment is because  life is as fleeting as pink apple blossoms in the spring.

When I see the first apple tree in bloom in a few short weeks,  it will be a moment to remember and savor.

HAVE YOU SMELLED APPLE BLOSSOMS IN THE SPRING?