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Festival of the Trees: Flowering

Festival of the Trees 

Well, against my best  judgment, I'm joining another meme, because...resistance is futile.  It's the  Orchards Forever Festival of the Trees    NOTE: Even though this post didn't make the line up for this Festival, I'm figuring out what the deal is so that next time the cool kids will play with me!

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Denver, Colorado, Friday, April 17th. Ugh.  I'm sure these are lovely trees...but how would one know?  It had been a wonderful Springtime in the Rockies week, and then, dump.  I guess that's still springtime in the rockies, but not capitalized, if you catch my drift.

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Home to Bend, Oregon, Sunday, April 19th.  Now here's more like it--a flowering plum in my backyard.

This is the most blossoms in my four years of living at the sweet cottage I'm honored to call home.  The loveliness of this tree makes the humans around here happy.

It has frosted hard two nights since the bloom started, so not sure what will happen.  AND, it's slated to snow tonight....to join the white petals now on the ground.

I wanted to submit the showy crabapple in the front yard, but she hasn't come out yet.

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Here's a close up of some petals, in afternoon sunlight.

All photos taken on my T-Mobile Dash cellphone. Gotta get a real camera!

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Published Monday, April 27, 2009 10:32 PM by Beth Patterson

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Deborah Godin said:

Enjoyed your tree thoughts, and the terrific photos. Love that blast of sunlight in the bottom one!!

April 28, 2009 11:56 AM

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About Beth Patterson

The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.

With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 20 years in end of life care and I currently work in the field of child abuse intervention and advocacy.

Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.

I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.

Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.

Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.

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