To look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room,

Close up of cherry blossom from the paddock.

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Part of the row of cherry trees we planted in our paddock in the winter of 2006

Luther famously was asked what he would do if he knew the world would end on the next day. Looking out of his window at the apples trees in bloom, he replied, “I would go plant a tree.”


Sensible man. We’ve just planted 10-15 fruit trees in the five years we’ve lived here–are planning to plant many more this year!!–but how glad we are that we planted those we did.


And here’s a poem from A. E. Housman, “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.”


And so will I!! 

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,	5
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,	10
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
A.E. Housman