Color Collage - Apple Blossoms

Color Collage 22(2018 - Apple Blossoms

Floral Bliss #73

Pterocarya rhoifolia - Japaninsiipipähkinä

The Garden Princess  right now is undoubtedly our old apple tree. It looks fabulous and is full of white blooms - I could admire it forever! There are apple blossom photos in two previous posts - look here & here. Today mainly some other white impressions. Also my modest cherry & plum trees are blooming, lilacs burst these days in full bloom - and so does my long white blooming Spiraea chamaedryfolia hedge. So I have here a beautiful white blooming Hanami ❤︎

Juuri nyt ehdoton puutarhan prinsessa on valkoisenaan kukkiva vanha omenapuu. 

Sitä voisin ihailla iät ajat! Omenankukkakuvia täällä ja täällä. 
Laihat kirsikka- ja luumupuuni kukassa myös, pihasyreenit ihan kohta täydessä loistossaan, 
samoin pitkän pitkä idänvirpiangervoaidanne. 

Meillä vietetään siis hurmaavaa valkoisena kukkivaa Hanamia ❤︎

Fraxinus excelsior - Metsäsaarni

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So lovely that you joined my Hanami! - Ihanaa Hanamia sinullekin!

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Apple Blossoms by Eino Leino

OMENANKUKAT

Mun onneni kukkii kuin omenapuu

kevät-öissä valoisissa,

kun kuusten latvat ne kumartuu

ja immet on unelmissa.

Ne yöt pari ympäri helluntain,

ne yöt on suuret ja syvät

ja silloin jos ei tule tuuli vain,

niin kypsyvät heelmät hyvät.

Oi, antaos taivas tyyntä nyt,

jos sitten sa annatkin muuta!

Oi, varjele Luojani vakainen

nyt orvon omenapuuta!

- Eino Leino -

APPLE BLOSSOMS
My happiness blooms like an apple tree
in the light spring nights,
when spruce tops are bowing down
and maidens are deep in their dreams.

Those few nights around Pentecost,
those nights are grand and profound,
 if only no wind came to blow,
the craved good fruit would ripen.

Oh Heaven, let it be placid now,

even if later You give us other!

Oh mighty Lord, protect now 
the apple tree of an orphan!

- Eino Leino -

To finish with some photos of the tree: packed with blooms

❤︎

Lopuksi pari kuvaa itse puusta: tupaten täynnä kukkia!

Happy Whitsunday! - Ihanaa helluntaita! - Sonniges Pfingsten!

#Makrotex-haaste

#Kukkailottelua
#Floral Friday Fotos
#Image-in-ing

Floral Bliss #10

It is still early for the Japanese Hanami, but somehow

I got an irresistible desire to look at my White Hanami from last year.

My Hanami is of course fake and very modest:

with one cherry tree, one big apple tree and a few plums you can't expect too much.

But last May they bloomed like never before!

All were so full of blossoms, I was impressed of their beauty.

My one and only apple tree - very old

Cherry - Kirsikka

Prunus sylvatica - Pin Cherry  - Pilvikirsikka

Plum - Luumu

Lilacs were blooming at the same time

Olet sydämellisesti tervetullut mukaan!

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Joy to your week! - Iloa viikkoonne!

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Five on Friday

I'll list again five things of my week and link with Amy's Five on Friday. Take time to peek what the others have been up to. The link is at the bottom of the post.

1 Strawberries & painting the house

I promised to eat strawberries in the summer with whipped cream - a lot. Started this week with imported from Spain. The Finnish strawberries are not yet ripe.

We have to paint the house. We made 3 proof paintings on the wall and could make up our minds. A big job ahead, mainly for the hubby.

2 The scent of lilacs!

Lovely weather and sun the whole week! Yesterday we got a good rain and I was very happy with it... My lilac hedgerows are in full bloom and the scent is fabulous. Mainly I have purples but some whites and pinks as well.

Wenn der weisse Flieder wieder blüht is an old German schlager that tells about white lilacs. On Youtube you can listen the Finnish version by a pretty famous Olavi Virta.

3 Apple blossom petals raining

Our only & old apple tree was packed with flowers and now the petals are raining down. Looks rather pretty.

4 Roland Garros

Not any surprising results yet. Hoping for good & tight matches. I need this rest because my back is complaining...

5 Coming next week - Flower Wednesday

I'll host this linkup starting the 1st of June. I think this does not compete with Five on Friday because the idea is different. The linkup is the place to share your beautiful flower photos for others to admire - you are most welcome to participate!

Have a lovely weekend!

-riitta-

Linking with

Five on Friday

Thank you Amy for hosting ♥

Omppupuun lumoa

Jotain aivan outoa tässä keväässä on. Talvi vei kasveja, toisaalta taas jotkut kasvit kukoistavat kuin ei koskaan ennen. Täpösen täynnä kukkia minua ilahduttaa myös tämä meidän ikivanha omppupuu.

Puu on istutettu joskus 50-60-luvuilla, jo hyvin vanha siis, mutta se on hyväkuntoinen ja kauniin muotoinenkin.  Puu on tavattoman iso ja korkea, joten eipä se suostu kiltisti kuvaan. Eli kovin tasokasta kuvaa en siitä saa...

Me ollaan asuttu tässä 15 vuotta ja koskaan ennen ei näin huikeaa kukintaa ole ollut! Kyllähän tämä hurmoksiin vie - ihanaa... Saapa nähdä tuleeko omenoita myös. Lajike ei ole tiedossa, mutta isoja ja hyvänmakuisia ovat olleet.

Mukavaa viikonloppua!

- riitta -

Apple Blossoms - Happy!

Apple Blossoms

Of all the months that fill the year,
Give May’s month to me,
For earth and sky are then so filled
With sweet variety.

The apple-blossoms’ shower of pearl
Though bent with rosier hue,
As beautiful as woman’s blush,
As evanescent too.

On every bough there is a bud,
In every bud a flower;
But scarcely bud or flower will last
Beyond the present hour.

Now comes a shower-cloud o’er the sky,
Then all again sunshine;
Then clouds again, but brightened with
The rainbow’s coloured line.

Ay, this, this is the month for me:
I could not love a scene
Where the blue sky was always blue,
The green earth always green.

(Letitia E. Landon, 1802-1838)

I found this beautiful poem in the blog of Ellen.

Thank you!

PS

I replaced the month of April with May because it is

the month of Apple Blossoms in Finland.

Linking with
Jutta's Natur-Donnerstag

Tainan Kukkailottelua
Kurkkaa muidenkin kukkailoa!

Happy / Our Beautiful World
Because
this week the beautiful & white apple, cherry and plum blossoms have made me very happy!