The flowering time for plants can be very short, which, of course, is not unique to here. Some species flower for longer than others. Chrysanthemum and thistle flowers can last for weeks or months. Some cactus like night-blooming cereus famously bloom for a single night.
Still, the seasons can make for brief blooms here. Every year, I’ll go out on a weekend, try to take the perfect trout-lily picture, fail, and tell myself I’ll try again the following weekend, only to discover that they’re all gone.
I met someone on the wildflower hike on Mount Royal who was astonished to learn that there was trillium in the woods; he’d lived in Montreal for nearly twenty-five years, but had never gone walking in the woods during two to three weeks each year when the trillium bloom.
Anyway, it’s crabapple week here in Montreal.
In a week, these trees will have leafed out completely, the petals fallen like so much confetti, and the world will be on to the next efflorescence.
So here are some frozen-in-time celebrations of crabapple week.
Speaking of enlarging, my definition of crabapple here is pretty loose (we’ll just go with the Malus genus). But not quite loose enough to include the interloper below, who is joining in on the celebration.
