Cherry blossoms in the snow, a January restart, and bed parties
The weather's just as confused as I am at the start of the year.
There’s a particular variety of cherry blossoms, the Autumnalis, that will flower during warm spells in the winter. I’ve spotted these trees in bloom on my walks around Prospect Park the last two winters and even wrote about the strangeness of seeing them a year ago on my second newsletter ever. The pink haze emanating from these tiny blossoms are like a mirage from afar, especially when everything around is colorless and gray; it very much feels like a trick on the eyes.
But I guess this is the norm now. I don’t recall ever seeing flowers at all in winters here in NYC, but roses are hanging on far longer than they should and cold-hardy red camellias in full bloom are a regular sight.
