Spring is coming

It was a beautiful day, yesterday. So nice, that we ate outside, on our terrace, for the first time this year. We had to clean the table and the chairs first, though, since they had accumulated a whole lot of filth during winter.

In the back of our garden, there's a morello tree. In case you don't know what those are: officially, morello's are some kind of sour cherries; however, they're really a combination of cherry and plum, which make them quite excuisite. What's nice about this tree, though, is that it's always the first tree in our neighbourhood to be in bloom; even though all trees, including the morello tree, still have to grow their leaves, making them look like a bunch of dead wood as they do all winter, the morello tree is filled with little, slightly pink-shaded flowers. It signals the start of spring, every year; when the morello tree is in bloom, the weather will get better, and the trees and bushes will get their leaves back.

It's a special year in that regard, too. The morello tree used to be bigger, but it was standing at a bad place, and we had to remove it. Nobody liked it, but it had to be done, since it was getting too big, and blocking a path in the back of our garden. When we cut it, though, we found out that the morello tree was actually two trees, a large one and a much smaller one, which grew at about 5cm from the trunk of the larger one. So, we cut the large tree, and left the smaller one as is, since that one didn't block anything. In doing so, we stopped it from blocking our path, while we now still have a morello tree

It's fruit is delicious too, BTW. Can't wait 'till early summer, when it's edible.