Snow Falling on Cherry Blossoms
" All human claims to the landscape were superseded, made null and void by the snow. The world was one world, and the notion that a man might kill another over some small patch of it did not make sense.”
David Gutterson-Snow Falling on Cedars
It just doesn't seem to make sense to me, to see snow falling on the blooming cherry trees. It's gotten close before as the latest I have ever had measurable snow fall at Illahe was March 31st. But here we are in mid April and I'm drinking a warm cup of coffee and watching large flakes smother the garden with a blanket of white. I have complained of bumper cherry crops in the past because the cherries that I cannot possibly harvest often end up on filling the bulb pots, the masses of red eventually start to ferment and attract yellowjackets which is annoying in the late summer. This year I doubt I'll have to deal with such issues. It's the peak of the cherry bloom and it's 33 degrees, an inch or so of heavy wet snow covering everything and not a pollinator in site. So for the record, this marks the latest snow fall I have ever seen in the past 15 years I have been at illahe.
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| The rock garden was just starting to wake into bloom. |
Fortunately the cold greenhouse affords some level of protection and the bulbs are still blooming away. Some even seem to appreciate the cold, as opposed to the sunny days where it rapidly hits 80 degrees plus in the greenhouse. 
