Flowering Cherry - York Cenmetry

A warm sunny afternoon, ornamental cherries flowering, it gives the feeling that spring is just around the corner. You can be certain though that if I am showing photos of cherry trees in blossom that we will be having some more snow before too long. Last year I when I showed cherry trees there was snow very quickly folowed.

This was the wintery scene at the appropriately named Ice House by Monk Bar on 23 March last year when we woke to a blanket of snow. This scene always reminds me of a Christmas pudding topped with a sprinkling of icing sugar, all that is missing is the sprig of holly!

Flowering Cherry Tree - Merchant Taylors Hall

Two shots of the same tree taken within days of each other. It doesn't do to wonder if spring is here just because the cherry trees are in flower, as soon as you do it starts to sno!

Is Spring Coming?

1 March 2008 and this ornamental cherry tree is in flower in Stonebow. These trees are probably the nicest feature of Stonebow which has little else to commend it with the ugly Stonebow House dominating the scene on the other side of the road with the string of bus stops that sometimes make navigatingthe footpath a difficult undertaking as people queuing for buses clog the pathway.