Flowering trees

 

The flowering tree situation in this city has gotten out of control.

Since we moved here in November there has always been one kind of tree at a time simply bursting with flowers. I don't know how to explain these trees. They're big. Sometimes they're standing with astonishing picturesqueness in front of some gorgeous belle epoque building. And they look like they are on fire with flowers.

One comes around the corner and involuntarily halts and cries "Holy crap!"

And then one carries on with their day, because that's just how you do it on the Cote D'Azur.

But it was merely one or two kinds of trees at a time throughout the late Fall, the Winter, and even the Spring. So it didn't come up that often. We could handle it.

But now, as we crash into Summer, all of the sudden it is happening all at once with many different kinds of trees. 

It is a bit much. 

Sometimes we are stopped dead in our tracks gawping until one of us says "Wait, are we seriously thinking of leaving this city?"

We are. But we may not make it.

The trees and the coffees on the beach may do us in.

Just lately, thinking about telling you all this, I started taking some pictures of these trees. So this is hardly a comprehensive list, just what I could come up with in the last couple of days. Also, they are radiant,  but in the teeming chaos and tumult of the city, it can be challenging to capture their sheer shock and awe.

Nevertheless, I have done my best and present just a few of the trees as they are now, around town. If they look a little ridiculous, well, believe me, it is even more overwrought in person.

And here, I have gone wide screen to give the full all-at-once effect