I've lived in my cur­rent house for over 12 years, the longest I've ever lived in one place. By far. Shortly after we moved in we planted a tree in the back­yard. I swear it was an apple tree (I have this thing for plant­ing things that server multi-​​purposes: pretty + bears fruit) but to this day it has never pro­duced fruit. Regard­less of that it does pro­duce some of the most strik­ing blooms I've seen. And it's come to sig­nal the start of spring for me. There is noth­ing like wak­ing up one morn­ing and see­ing the tree full of blos­soms. It just makes me happy :)

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