Loveliest of trees

It's extraordinary the change in our garden after just five days away. The cherry tree is in full blossom and next door's lilac which hangs over our pond is well on. The quince has lots of blossom about to open too.

Loveliest of Trees
A. E. Housman

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

My back blips of our wee holiday are up, complemented by OB's, for any of you who would like to take a look.