Flowering quince...

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The other day I had a meeting close to our former neighborhood in the city.  

I noticed that the ornamental pear and cherry trees planted along the streets were beginning to bloom.

Salmon colored flowering quince blossomed in many of the yards that I passed.

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I've fully embraced our new to us house as home, 

but I'm still adjusting to life in a more suburban/rural setting.

The streets in my neighborhood aren't lined with blooming ornamental trees.

My former home was close to some protected greenspace in the city.

I used to forage some flowering quince branches that bloomed there amongst the blackberry brambles.

I was missing those things as I drove back to our new home.

As I neared our house, I glanced toward a vacant lot that's for sale and saw, smack dab in the middle of the lot, the telltale salmon colored blooms of flowering quince.

What a sweet surprise!

It seemed like a gift from above, just for me.

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(for songography-lyrics from Les Fleur by Minnie Riperton.

Photo edited with Kim Klassen's waterfront texture.)

still following,

songography at "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out"

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