Unlikely Flowers

Dogwood Tree Bloom 1, originally uploaded by Poundstone.

I guess I never really noticed it before this year, but when flowering trees get going in the spring, their flowers arrive first, and then their leaves, which push the flowers out.

I guess I also hadn't noticed before this year how beautiful and amazing it looks when it's just the flowers and the craggy branches on the tree — how all-the-more-unlikely those flowers seem. Maybe there's a life-related metaphor somewhere in there.