Petals

Places July 30, 2018

I’m picking flowers from trees and collecting petals to make flowers.

cherry_blossom_pond

 

Pleats Please red

 

sakura 2018

 

sakura namiki

 

Pleats Please petals

 

petals

 

cherry blossom Japan

 

Pleats Please

There’s always been something about the silky, thin blossom petals that makes me want to gather up armfuls of fallen petals, cram my pockets full, and carry them home with me.

Our next door neighbors growing up had two cherry trees in their front yard and one year we did just that; scooped them up from the front walk and stuffed the confetti-like petals into a bag. Of course within hours they were a sad, wilted mess, no longer the perfect silk bits they were strewn in drifts on the ground. The ephemerality, of course, being part of the magic, we accepted that our attempts were futile, and never tried to save them again. Still, every once in a while I can’t help but pick up a blossom that’s managed to fall still-whole and perfect and carry it around with me for a bit.