Asakiyume mita - looks like hawthorn... but is probably pin cherry

From: lizziebelle Date: May 7th, 2008 03:09 pm (UTC) (Link)

Great shot! I must go down to see if the trees in Stanley Park are in bloom this weekend. :)

A friend made a needle out of a Hawthorn thorn for me. It's one of my most prized possessions!

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From: asakiyume Date: May 7th, 2008 03:13 pm (UTC) (Link)

You know--but I'm going to have to edit the entry. There **is** hawthorn in bloom right now... but I think this is not hawthorn after all... the leaves are wrong. I think it's a pin cherry :-(

I feel like a bit of an idiot now. Must fix entry.

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From: lizziebelle Date: May 7th, 2008 05:04 pm (UTC) (Link)

I can see from your edit that it's easy to confuse them! Mother Nature, she is a tricky one. :)

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From: deponti Date: May 7th, 2008 03:15 pm (UTC) (Link)

Lovely...like snow in summer...I have never seen (or identified, to be precise) this plant...

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From: asakiyume Date: May 7th, 2008 03:30 pm (UTC) (Link)

It's very pretty, and it grows wild, which I love.

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From: cheapriboflavin Date: May 7th, 2008 03:41 pm (UTC) (Link)

I wish I got as much use out my digital camera as you do. :)

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From: asakiyume Date: May 7th, 2008 03:50 pm (UTC) (Link)

Carry it along with you--then you have it if you want it. I wear mine like a necklace. (sooo stylish)

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From: cheapriboflavin Date: May 7th, 2008 03:53 pm (UTC) (Link)

I think I need to get a protective covering for it. Right now, I just keep it in a small sleeve of my backpack (and I still forget to take pictures!)

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From: duccio Date: May 7th, 2008 04:05 pm (UTC) (Link)

It's really pretty... (mmmm, cherries).

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From: asakiyume Date: May 7th, 2008 05:49 pm (UTC) (Link)

The blossoms smell like honey :-)

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From: duccio Date: May 7th, 2008 06:00 pm (UTC) (Link)

Mmmmm, honey 'n cherries! Mmmmmmmmm!

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From: desert_sparrow Date: May 7th, 2008 05:18 pm (UTC) (Link)

Lovely photos. I hope Molly the dog will consent someday to having her picture taken. I've seen her footprints and part of her tail.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 7th, 2008 05:24 pm (UTC) (Link)

Oh, I have a cute video of her digging in a hole on a walk--let me upload it. I'll leave another response here when it's up.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 7th, 2008 05:48 pm (UTC) video of Molly-the-dog (Link)

It's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XbfwehN1Xs

(on YouTube) :-)

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From: desert_sparrow Date: May 7th, 2008 09:14 pm (UTC) Re: video of Molly-the-dog (Link)

Thank you! You are too gracious. :)

Molly the Truffle dog? France next, perhaps Oregon?

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From: asakiyume Date: May 7th, 2008 10:09 pm (UTC) Re: video of Molly-the-dog (Link)

Alas, she prefers chipmunks to truffles :D

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From: desert_sparrow Date: May 7th, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC) Re: video of Molly-the-dog (Link)

Oh dear.

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From: anushsh Date: May 7th, 2008 06:31 pm (UTC) (Link)

Beautiful.. lovely flowers. These images made my day :)

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From: asakiyume Date: May 7th, 2008 10:08 pm (UTC) (Link)

hurray! The spring blossoms are so wonderful.

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From: sin_agua Date: May 7th, 2008 09:19 pm (UTC) (Link)

Lovely! I see how you could make that mistake. I look forward to all the mistakes I'll make as I learn entire new bioregions' flora and fauna! ;)

Right now, I wouldn't know a Hawthorne from a hole in the ground. ;)

But next year? Heh. Just you wait. !

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From: asakiyume Date: May 7th, 2008 10:07 pm (UTC) (Link)

I expect you to be a northeastern herbalist wise woman in a year's time :D

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From: sin_agua Date: May 7th, 2008 10:12 pm (UTC) (Link)

Might take me a couple three years before I really feel "at home," but yeah, that's my goal.

Within my first year of living in Tucson, I knew more about the local flora and fauna than most natives/locals. And most of it, I'd never encountered before.

Now I have to do a massive "brain dump" and make room in there for all this northeastern botany!

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From: 88greenthumb Date: May 7th, 2008 11:09 pm (UTC) (Link)

Lovely photos of lovely flowers whether they be May Hawthorn or Pin Cherry.

BTW, I found you thru my friend travelertrish, and her friends susan_s, villager9999 and love your comments & blog entries. Do you mind if I add you to my friends'list?

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From: asakiyume Date: May 8th, 2008 01:20 am (UTC) (Link)

Thank you! By all means do add me :-)

You've got some very excellent friends there in Traveler Trish, Suzan, and Villager 9999! Wonderful people all (though only Trish have I met in person).

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From: seajules Date: May 8th, 2008 02:10 am (UTC) (Link)

If the hawthorn is the gateway to the Fair Folk's realm, it may bloom in disguise.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 8th, 2008 02:15 am (UTC) (Link)

♥ I love you, Seajules :-) Your comment is VERY YES!!

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From: seajules Date: May 13th, 2008 11:16 pm (UTC) (Link)

Maybe morning dew collected from a golden tree might allow you to see it better. *G*

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From: redcoast Date: May 8th, 2008 06:54 pm (UTC) (Link)

You say "Hawthorne," I think "Nathanael."

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From: asakiyume Date: May 8th, 2008 07:37 pm (UTC) (Link)

He wrote surname-appropriate stories.

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