Spring Embroidery

Most of my Saturday mornings find me at 

a swimming practice. However, not only was the site 

of this week's practice changed to a more distant location, 

bus service to my neighborhood was suspended 

because of the annual "Mini." 

It is a half-marathon race, 13.1 miles in length, 

that annually has over 30,000 participants, 

and winds its way from Downtown to 

the Speedway and back.

I took the opportunity to take a long walk,

an activity that I'd neglected because of the miserable

winter weather. It seemed like a chilly day for May,

and the plants looked a little wan, too.

Perhaps they were tired from the effort to germinate

and bud in these cold mornings.

At any rate, as I walked down Lynhurst Drive,

I noticed the sunlight on this flowering tree.

I do love lace and these white flowers looked

as though they'd been embroidered on a base of

black lace provided by the bare

limbs in the background.