11.   No blooms yet, but a lot of little pointed white-striped leaves where in a few weeks the fragile pink blossoms of the pipsissewas will show.

12.   Their pale pink blossoms nestled against the dark gnarled branches of the trees like young brides leaning against their old fathers.

13.   To be anyplace else when May came and her yard exploded in pink blossoms seemed unthinkable.