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櫻花
5/2/2020
五月的第二天，迎接我的是落在後院裏的那束陽光。昨天氣象台播報這個周的氣溫將達到77F, 想必是初夏時節的感覺。
正對門的那棵東部楓樹，現在至花盛時，五瓣的黃綠色的小花簇擁成一團團的花球。它已立在這裏幾年了，天天與它相見，而真到這個春天我才知道它是一棵楓樹，會在春天裏開綠色小花的楓樹。想來不可思議，又覺可笑。但待得知鄰居的一對美國老夫妻，也和一樣時，就變得坦然了。“真的？這怎麽會是花？我說是葉。咱們觀察著，走著看”，老太太堅持她的，這是葉不是花的觀點。“不像，這像是花。”聽老先生說，我心裏樂了。觀點與我相同，咱們等著瞧。
答案在四五天後就有了。那是花，而非葉。那天，我看到了葉子的蹤跡---一朵朵才冒出尖的葉芽。
清風相伴，我朝公園的方向行進。馬路右邊原是一片灌草叢生的神秘之地，去年雪下得正憨時，幾個壯漢外加上一輛悍車來了，把電線杆周圍的一大片枯枝蠻草清理一光。等到三月時，發現那空地上拱出了一尖尖的油綠，驚喜不已。幾天後，當那點尖綠漸漸長高，我看出它們是生長在塘邊，溪邊常見的車輪草樣的植物。被那一苗苗的油綠吸引，有一次我從路邊，向它們走去，沒想到剛走到一半，腳下就有濕粘的感覺。膽小的我，隻好收腳撤退。走回馬路上，再看它們兩眼。幾日前，卻發現那油綠變成了黃綠，帶著讓人擔心的病色。開始不解，後來明白了：這幾日氣溫高，太陽大，那片地有點幹了。
右手的那片還是那般黃綠，向左手望去，卻驚見一棵小樹的綠葉中現出點點粉紅。那是什麽樹？長在那片去年才開出的石子路邊，旁邊身後是一片無人灌草。滿懷好奇，我等遠處的兩輛車駛過，才通過冷清的馬路，朝它走去。沒想到，隻那看花一眼，我就慶幸自己的決定。花瓣櫻紅中染著白色，一朵花就是一幅水粉畫。這麽美的一棵樹，因為長在無人靠近的路上，而沒人能欣賞到它的美麗。真是：酒香也怕巷子深。
公園裏前後兩個停車場已被三四十輛車子差不多占滿。綠毯一樣的草地裝點著蒲公英的黃色白傘，公園裏是行走的人和狗，還有放風箏的孩子。
一直在觀注公園盡頭的那兩列櫻花樹。因為去年發現它們是櫻花樹時，已是櫻花開始殘敗時，遂心生遺憾。今年，早早地，就去看它們的動靜。當那種粉白色的東京櫻花開得正盛時，這種櫻樹的空枝上才生出黃豆大小的棕褐色小球。從那時，到現在已經近一個月了，幾乎天天去看兩眼。從昨天的跡象，我知道今天到時候了。
遠遠看到它們時，心就開始激動起來。果然，第一棵樹上，多數還是含苞待放狀，但半空處，看到一朵。。。
THR 2ND day of May started from the first glance of bright sunshine pouring on my back yard. From the weather forecast I heard yesterday, I knew this weekend's temperature will bring people a mild summer-like feeling.
After having a simple breakfast with an English muffin with egg and cheese, a glass of milk, I began reviewing the vocabularies I learned yesterday by reading a novel and an online article. I scribbled them on slices of paper I cut from A4. I don’t know why, it make me feel better than writing on a whole of A4 paper. I learn everywhere, novel, business and political articles, TV news, and also from reading the articals in Nuandong’s blog. Everything when you grow them into a hobby, it turns to a fun thing instead of a burden. I feel this myself, but from a book or from anyone else.
The maple tree in front of my house is in full blossom. The tree has been in my eyes for years, but I don’t know it’s a maple tree with flowers in spring till this spring. It sounds unbelievable, but I found I am not the only one who neglected this, my neighbor, a couple in their 60s are same. It’s me telling them this is a maple tree and those are its flowers, not leave. Both of them were gasped, “we will watch, we will see” the wife said with skeptical eyes.
People here can’t resist the temptation from warm sunshine . I realized this the first year I got here. Today, at 9:00am, tens of cars have almost fully occupied the two small parking lots. The park with green-blanket-like grass is scattered with walking people,dogs, kite-flying kids.
Nice try in writing bilingual journals. I can tell you put a lot of efforts, and are making progress. Just keep reading and practicing!