Petals and Puddles
Last weekend, we had nothing but rain and wind and more rain. The next day as I walked through the park, I found two things. I found flower petals from the trees on the ground everywhere I looked. I also found puddles. It was kind of sad that so many of the petals from the flowering trees were knocked down so quickly after they appeared, but it was inevitable. After the rain, a carpet of pink petals had been spread out underneath the crabapple trees. The rain came down so fast that it took a while for it to drain off and soak into the ground. It was standing in a big puddle above the underground drain in the park. There was another big puddle behind one of the baseball fields underneath some pine trees. Everywhere I looked there were petals on the ground. Pink and white ones were spread like confetti over the parking lots. Yellow ones were spread out underneath the forsythia bushes too. More pink petals lined the street along the curb and were littered over...