1.   Occasionally there were small, isolated villages, looking like white blossom carelessly tossed on the vast landscape.

2.   Tiny white blossoms patterned the pavement like confetti.

3.   As do the white cloudlike blossoms on the Annabelle hydrangea blooming its head off in a tub in the back garden.

4.   Beyond me flowed the striking aquamarine of the Mediterranean and the dancing white blossoms of thousands of orange trees, their fragrance sweetening the air.

5.   A small paddock rises gently to an apple orchard, the trees laced with white blossoms.

6.   But jasmines, for example, produce small umbels of white blossoms that send a big message scentwise.

7.   Farther down the trail, she points to a shady patch of scallionlike foliage with delicate, nodding white blossoms.

8.   I planted it mostly for its woolly white foliage, but when it is covered in white blossoms in late spring, it steals the show.

9.   In early May, clusters of white blossoms drift through slate-gray stems.