Redbuds and Cocoa

Blossoms growing directly
out of the bark
on their trunks--that's what
some trees and shrubs
have.

Cacao beans--which get
turned into
chocolate bars--share
this trait with
the redbud's fruits,
which resemble the pods
of edible peas.

Yesterday, March 30,
I photographed some
redbud blossoms near
the fork of the tree
where they had bloomed out
overnight.



What a joy the springtime can be, when the breeze is light and the sun is warm and such beauty is displayed around every corner!

How would you say it?

Do stars and wars rhyme for you?
To my ear they are perfect rhymes.

But apparently for most of the world
wars rhymes with s'mores.

S'mores? Those delicious little
hot sandwiches made by
squishing a marshmallow and
a square of chocolate
between two graham crackers
and heating them
over a campfire?

Under the stars?
Forgetting the wars?

Well, how would you say it?
Like me?

Or like all those
other people, who rhyme
wars with scores and stores and doors?

OEDILF has recovered.

Thanks to heroic work all weekend by Virge,
the programmer who looks after the
site,OEDILF is running, useable, and
useful once more, after the complete
failure of its hard disk.

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